Hide & Seek

While a Connecticut town sets off fireworks for Independence Day, a freed woman named Deborah is doing the most dangerous work of her life a few miles away. Three runaways are hidden on the Cranberry farm. The slave catchers are close. And the only thing standing between them and capture is a woman who has learned to make a deadly serious thing look like a children's game.

This is a complete short story, set between The Ghost and the Key and The Widow Murderess. You don't need to have read either one. If you've already met the Cranberrys, it's a missing piece. If you haven't, it's the front door.

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