Stitches in Time, page 37
“Youth and beauty,” Adam said, tightening his grasp on Rachel.
“You’re a hopeless sentimentalist,” Pat jeered. “We’ll never know what she looked like. She was young, certainly. Poor little kid…” He stopped to clear his throat and glared at the others. “Frog in my throat.”
“Sure,” Kara said, with an affectionate smile.
“Enough of this sloppy stuff. Who wants coffee?” Pat rose stiffly to his feet. “Damned arthritis…There’s no proof of any of this, you know. No proof, even, that the girl in that forgotten grave was the quilt maker.”
“Sure,” Kara said again.
“You haven’t sold the other quilts yet, have you?” Ruth asked. “I’d like to buy one of them.”
“Ten percent off to you,” Kara said with a grin.
“What do you mean, ten?” On his way to the kitchen, Pat turned to scowl at her. “Dammit, we’re kin. Twenty percent or no deal.”
“Oh, all right.” Kara scowled back at him. “But Rachel gets first choice. We’re giving her one as a wedding present.”
“I want the patchwork,” Rachel said promptly. “The Carolina Rose.”
There was no proof. But she knew who had made those quilts, and when people admired hers and asked about the maker, she would tell them what she knew.
The sunlight strengthened, stretching long warm fingers through the room. Out in the garden purple and golden crocuses and the small blue flowers called “glory-of-the-snow” covered a certain spot like living patchwork.
About the Author
BARBARA MICHAELS is the author of more than twenty novels, including many New York Times bestsellers. She also writes mysteries under the pseudonym Elizabeth Peters. Ms. Michaels, who holds a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago, lives in a historic farmhouse in Frederick, Maryland, with two dogs and six cats.
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THE DANCING FLOOR
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HOUSES OF STONE
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VANISH WITH THE ROSE
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SHATTERED SILK
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HERE I STAY
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Books by Barbara Michaels
The Dancing Floor
Stitches in Time
Houses of Stone
Vanish with the Rose
Into the Darkness
Search the Shadows
Shattered Silk
Smoke and Mirrors
Be Buried in the Rain
The Grey Beginning
Here I Stay
Black Rainbow
Someone in the House
The Wizard’s Daughter
The Walker in Shadows
Wait for What Will Come
Wings of the Falcon
Patriot’s Dream
The Sea King’s Daughter
House of Many Shadows
Witch
Greygallows
The Crying Child
The Dark on the Other Side
Prince of Darkness
Ammie, Come Home
Sons of the Wolf
The Master of Blacktower
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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