Tomorrow's Echo

If one was prone to believe in curses, one might think the mountains of the Emerson Estate were cursed. In the first in the Stafford County series, Shadow in the Wind, not only did the mountains reveal unexplained toxins in the waterways, but also the bodies of Holly Emerson and the man it was assumed she ran away with five years earlier. In Pale Hunter's Moon, the hunt for the killer brought justice if not peace to the tiny hamlet of Oak Meadow and the Emerson Clan. In Tomorrow's Echo, Laine Addison should not have survived the addiction and abuse of her parents, but she did. She struggled to start over in foster care system that moved her from place to place, never leaving her anywhere long enough to take root. Discovering that school was her ticket out of the bleak plains of eastern Oklahoma, she earned a scholarship to the university in Crystal Springs and believed the worst was behind her. She thought she was starting over for the last time when she was awarded an internship with Dr. Ellery Richmond, the chair of the chemistry department, working with Trevor Cantrell taking and testing water samples on the Emerson Estate - and falling in love with him. She thought the best was ahead of them as soon as they were free of the university policy against student/faculty fraternization no longer stood between them.