Crimson Eve
| Crimson Eve |
| Kanner Lake [3] |
| Brandilyn Collins |
| Christian Fiction, USA |
| (2006) |
gentleman' a lakeside estate--and finds herself facing a gun. Who has
hired this assassin to kill her, and why? Forced on the run, Carla must
uncover the scathing secrets of her past. Secrets that could destroy
some very powerful people. Perhaps even change the face of a nation ...
PRAISE FOR BRANDILYN COLLINS’ KANNER LAKE SERIES
“. . . fast-paced … interesting details of police procedure and crime scene investigation . . . beautifully developed [characters] …”
—
Publishers Weekly
for
Violet Dawn
“. . . a magnificent storyteller. Ms. Collins has written another fantastic mystery and
Violet Dawn
is a great beginning to a new series.”
—
FreshFiction.com
“Collins’ ability to bring characters to life rivals that of Barbara Kingsolver [
The Poisonwood Bible
]. If you’re afraid of the dark, live in a house that squeaks, or are terrified by things that go bump in the night, try reading
Coral Moon
in broad daylight.”
—
TitleTrakk.com
Other Books by Brandilyn Collins
Kanner Lake Series
1 | Violet Dawn
2 | Coral Moon
3 | Crimson Eve
Hidden Faces Series
1 | Brink of Death
2 | Stain of Guilt
3 | Dead of Night
4 | Web of Lies
Bradleyville Series
1 | Cast a Road Before Me
2 | Color the Sidewalk for Me
3 | Capture the Wind for Me
Chelsea Adams Series
1 | Eyes of Elisha
2 | Dread Champion
HELP CREATE THE KANNER LAKE WORLD
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Crimson Eve
. Their entertaining posts are written in real time, according to events in this story. And they’re created by
you
— the readers of the series!
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.
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.
Want to Discuss
Crimson Eve
with Your Book Club?
Insightful questions about the story and how it
applies to your life can be found at
www.kannerlake.com/discussions
ZONDERVAN
CRIMSON EVE
Copyright © 2007 by Brandilyn Collins
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Collins, Brandilyn.
Crimson eve / Brandilyn Collins.
p. cm.
ISBN-13:978-0-310-25225-2
1. Women real estate agents—Fiction. 2. Resorts—Fiction. 3. Idaho—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.O4747815C75 2007
813'.6—dc22
2007012727
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the
Holy Bible: New International Version
®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other — except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
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For Sister #3,
Sandy Sheppard,
a.k.a. “Perfect Sister.”
Because you are.
(It helps that you prayed for me to be born.)
CONTENTS
Be sure to read book four in the Kanner Lake series, Amber Morn.
“Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?” cried he. . . .
“It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The House of Seven Gables
What is past is prologue.
— William Shakespeare,
The Tempest
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.
— Ecclesiastes 3:15
Dear Reader,
Back for more, are you?
In
Coral Moon
(second in the Kanner Lake series), I warned you that the wheels of the roller coaster on which you were about to embark just might leave earth. For
Crimson Eve
, I issue a warning of another kind. This roller coaster stays on the track, all right. But it is frighteningly long, its cars stretching so far that the front one catches up to the back. Or is it that the back circles around to meet the front?
Imagine being on a ride in which you do not know the start or the end. Which car is pushing, which is pulling? Which one drives the rickety climb to the top, the stomachless plunge to the bottom? Which one determines when you stop? Whether or not you’ve made it to safety?
If you find your way off this thing, you might look about you, check your possessions. Not everyone who boards leaves with all that was brought. I’ll let you decide if that is a good thing.
And now — you know the drill. Keep y
our hands inside the car, strap yourself i
n tight, and don’t forget to
b r e a t h e
. . .
