Crime & Justice · fiction
The Name on Rose's Blanket
The baby’s tiny fist opened beneath the dead mare, trembled once in the Texas heat, and dropped against her chest. For one terrible second, Jacob Mercer thought he had found her too late. Then her mouth opened. A thin, exhausted cry slipped through the grass. Jacob dropped the coil of fencing wire from his hand and ran. He had been riding the...
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- Adult readers
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- 6
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- fiction
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