Mercy (83 page)

Palma looked at him. Yes, she thought, she could get to know him in a year, but she didn’t think she could possibly feel any differently about him then than she did at this very moment. With an enormous sense of relief, the first she had felt in over two months, since Grant had returned to Washington, she was thankful that he had been wiser about their silence than she had been. If he hadn’t come back, she wasn’t sure she would ever have understood what had happened between them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David L. Lindsey is the author of six novels, including
A Cold Mind
and
In the Lake of the Moon
. In 1989,
In the Lake of the Moon
was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.