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MIRROR MYSTERY
“The characters are well developed and the plot has a way
of drawing you directly into the action. I can’t wait to read
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The
Mona Lisa
Mirror Mystery
L ATAY N E C . S COT T
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are
either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
“Christian fiction at its finest!”
Shelly Beach, Christy Award-winning author
I shrug.
“Sorry. I got nothin’.”
I am more grateful than I’ve ever been in my
life that at that moment no one is making fun of me.
Michaela touches several of the pictures and I can tell
she’s checking if some are warmer than others. Lace
steps back with her arms outstretched in front of her
and does a slow-spin survey. ZZ looks hopeful anyhow.
But it’s after 9, and the girls hug me and I walk
them out to the parking lot, and they pile into Lace’s
car and leave.
I’m back in my bedroom, in my T-shirt and
pajama pants, propped up against my pillow. I look at
the painting and now the feeling is back. But it is so
much stronger than ever before. The painting is pulling
me toward it.
I can hear water crashing all around me. I cough
because I’ve just swallowed water, and it’s gritty, muddy.
I look into the eyes of the woman in the painting and
her gaze is steady, trusting.
Everything around it—all my books and the other
art—are underwater.
Then my room isn’t there at all.
And I can’t breathe.
I think I am drowning.