Wilted Lilies
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It's not that Lily May Holloway is a broken, battered teenager recently escaped from her kidnapper.
It's not that she may or may not have killed him to escape.
The question on Detective Travis Butler's mind is - what exactly does the death of little Tommy Jenkins have to do with her kidnapper?
And why does the man behind the one-way glass want the detective to entertain Lily's tales of speaking to the dead... and being able to hear the thoughts of the living?
... This is an excerpt of the novella WILTED LILIES, book 1 in the Wilted Lily series (5 books planned, the 2nd available now: PASSAGES)
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