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    Leave No Trace: An Oyster Point Thriller, #3
    Leave No Trace: An Oyster Point Thriller, #3
    Leave No Trace: An Oyster Point Thriller, #3
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    Leave No Trace: An Oyster Point Thriller, #3

    By Tanya Anne Crosby

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    Less than 48 hours. That's how long Florence W. Aldridge has to live.

    Every event in a person's life is connected. The state of our lives, at any given time, is the sum of everything we have done and everywhere we have been. Our next decision determines, not merely where our lives end, but who we become along the way. How far can one lost woman go to redeem herself by the time the clock stops ticking?

    These are the final moments of Florence W. Aldridge...

    Note: This is not a short story. It is a vignette, a snippet of time, meant to be used as a companion to SPEAK NO EVIL and Tell NO LIES. This book does not contain spoilers, so it can be read in advance of the books, but it does not stand alone

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOliver-Heber Books
    Release dateMay 17, 2016
    ISBN9781507050422
    Leave No Trace: An Oyster Point Thriller, #3
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    Tanya Anne Crosby

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tanya Anne Crosby has been featured in People, USA Today, Romantic Times and Publisher’s Weekly, and her books have been translated into eight languages. The author of 30 novels, including mainstream fiction, contemporary suspense and historical romance, her first novel was published in 1992 by Avon Books, where she was hailed as “one of Avon’s fastest rising stars” and her fourth book was chosen to launch the company’s Avon Romantic Treasure imprint.

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      Leave No Trace - Tanya Anne Crosby

      Leave No Trace

      LEAVE NO TRACE

      THE FINAL MOMENTS OF FLORENCE W. ALDRIDGE

      TANYA ANNE CROSBY

      Oliver-Heber Books

      Copyright © Tanya Anne Crosby

      All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever, electronically, in print, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of both Oliver-Heber Books and Tanya Anne Crosby, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      © Cover Art by Cora Graphics

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      CONTENTS

      Less Than 48 Hours

      Series Bibliography

      Foreword

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      The Things We Leave Behind

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      About the Author

      LESS THAN 48 HOURS

      That's how long Florence W. Aldridge has to live. 

      Every event in a person's life is connected. The state of our lives, at any given time, is the sum of everything we have done and everywhere we have been. Our next decision determines, not merely where our lives end, but who we become along the way. How far can one lost woman go to redeem herself by the time the clock stops ticking? 

      These are the final moments of Florence W. Aldridge...

      PRAISE FOR SPEAK NO EVIL & TELL NO LIES

      [Speak No Evil is] dangerously addicting.

      SHERRILYN KENYON #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

      Crosby serves up suspense, secrets and Southern scandal like no one else!

      HARLAN COBEN #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

      Well written, almost Southern Gothic type, romantic suspense with nonstop thrills, chills, and mystery.

      READER

      Crosby easily paints an eerie setting that on the outside seems beautiful, but lurking beneath the shadows is something sinister. Reminiscent of an old Hitchcock film, Crosby is able to give the reader the shadowy figure in the background, always close, but unseen by the hero and heroine.

      READER

      SERIES BIBLIOGRAPHY

      Speak No Evil

      Tell No Lies

      Leave No Trace

      FOREWORD

      Dear reader,

      This is not a short story. It is a vignette, a snippet of time, meant to be used as a companion to Speak No Evil and Tell No Lies. Although it is not meant to stand alone, this short piece does not contain spoilers, so it can be read in advance of the books.

      However, chances are, if you’re reading this, you’ve already read Speak No Evil and Tell No Lies. If so, you’ve no doubt also read the first-person narratives at the beginning of each story, both told from the perspective of Florence Willodean Aldridge. I’ve been asked about these brief narratives many times, since they are told in an entirely different voice from the rest of the Oyster Point/Aldridge Sister books. Most of all, curious readers want to know more about the final moments leading up to Flo Aldridge’s death.

      Who was she? What were her motives for doing what she did? We know she was murdered, but what exactly happened to her that night?

      Read on to experience the final moments and last words of Florence W. Aldridge…

      When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

      JOHN MUIR

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      4:35 p.m. Thursday, May 1, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C

      The flowers are new.

      Babies’ breath and sun-bleached peach roses. Standing at attention in the lopsided urn, they’d not yet begun to wilt, despite the oppressive heat of the day. Florence W. Aldridge had not placed them there, but the sight of them tightened her throat as she bent to straighten the urn on her son’s tombstone.

      Halfway between Robert’s and Sam’s graves grew an old yucca plant. Its leaves shivered in the warm summer breeze. That, too, had been Sadie’s doing. According to an old Geechee tradition, yucca plants kept the spirits of the dead in their places, and knowing her dear friend, Sadie would have planted them here

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