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eBook Category: Romance/Suspense/Thriller
eBook Description: When six-year-old Gilly disappears from school, his frantic mother sets out to find Gilly, herself. She deals with unsympathetic inlaws, underworld characters she never ever, thought to meet face to face, threatening "gifts," and frightening intruders to her home. Is it possible for Molly to fall in love with the detective under such terrifying circumstances?

eBook Publisher: Wings ePress, Inc, Published: Wings ePress, Inc, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2004

6 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.5 MB], eReader (PDB) [312 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [307 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [271 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [251 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [299 KB], hiebook (KML) [695 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [320 KB], iSilo (PDB) [253 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [314 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [349 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [410 KB]
Words: 95907
Reading time: 274-383 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
ISBN: 1-59088-051-X

"A TV reporter, his voice colorless, told about Gilly's disappearance and in the background Molly could see her own garage apartment with the pampas grass and sprinkler. The unreality hit Molly with a swift pain to her stomach so wrenching that she put a hand to her waist and breathed in short shallow gasps while listening. This was Gilly they were talking about. Gilly. Missing. On television.

"And there was...film footage taken earlier in the day. Lake Elena right down the road from their apartment....divers, trucks with equipment and clusters of watching people hanging around the edges of the lake. Another reporter, this one with a stiff breeze pulling at his hair, said they were dragging the lake on the off chance they might find the boy.

"Molly stood as if she were paralyzed. Surely this was a nightmare. Those men in wet suits and masks, carrying canvas bags and long knives swinging from belts around their waists could not be looking for Gilly. The thought was bizarre.

"And then Gilly's image filled the screen. His laughing mouth grinned at them while the chief of police said that a massive search had been launched to discover the whereabouts of this child. They were, at the moment, dragging the lake because three dogs in as many weeks had been killed by alligators in this lake and..."

"He went on talking but Molly didn't hear. She was in the bathroom, leaning over, trying not to see an image of Gilly in the water with an alligator gliding toward him. She was not even aware that the awful choking, strangling sounds of retching came from her."