Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

onto the dry counter. “She said she had an errand at the hardware store, but she went toward the highway instead.”

I took a clean dish towel and began drying the copper measuring cups. “People have errands, Diana.”

Diana bent down to empty the small plastic trash bin under the prep table into the larger bin by the door.

She paused, her hand disappearing continue reading …