Lost & Found - Jacqueline Sheehan [0]
Jacqueline Sheehan
Rebecca Elfrieda Sheehan
1912–2005
Contents
Chapter 1
Bob had left the waxed food carton on the counter…
Chapter 2
When Bob had died, the brushed cotton sheets had been…
Chapter 3
Isaiah opened the door and a terrible whiff of dead…
Chapter 4
The first two weeks of the job offered a sampling…
Chapter 5
Tess did not regret for one minute the uniqueness of…
Chapter 6
Lift with your knees, not your back. Rocky heard the…
Chapter 7
No one on the island, except for Isaiah, knew she…
Chapter 8
The first place Melissa went when she got home from…
Chapter 9
“Dear, do you want to kill something?” asked Tess.
Chapter 10
Lesson two was harder.
Chapter 11
The track coach was surprisingly easy to fool. He was…
Chapter 12
Rocky expected to see improvement; this was the third lesson.
Chapter 13
The dog still caught old wisps of her scent, once…
Chapter 14
She could not afford to trust Rocky. The woman was…
Chapter 15
Rocky brought a weekly report into Isaiah’s office. It was…
Chapter 16
The throb had started prematurely, because grieving was supposed to…
Chapter 17
It was deep into December when Isaiah called Rocky and…
Chapter 18
Property. That was the question. If the dog had been…
Chapter 19
Tess’s first inkling of danger came in the rich moments…
Chapter 20
Dr. Harris clinched the dog’s identity.
Chapter 21
The first thing they noticed was the green Dumpster in…
Chapter 22
Isaiah’s truck pulled up to the cottage midmorning. He was…
Chapter 23
Melissa knew something was wrong when she saw Rocky running,…
Chapter 24
Cooper was stunned by his exile. There had not been…
Chapter 25
They were all gone. Isaiah and Charlotte were in North…
Chapter 26
Rocky heard the solid sound of a truck door closing.
Chapter 27
In Providence, Rhode Island, Liz’s mother smoked the last cigarette…
Chapter 28
Rocky hit the redial button. She had already left a…
Chapter 29
Checkout time was noon, but Rocky had been awake since…
Chapter 30
Melissa was back at school for a full week before…
Chapter 31
Rocky knew she had been wrong about Isaiah’s intention with…
Chapter 32
The first thing Tess noticed about the young man was…
Chapter 33
Rocky had purchased a bow with a thirty-pound draw. In…
Chapter 34
Rocky pulled into Hill’s driveway and as soon as she…
Chapter 35
Rocky spent the next week practicing at the boathouse. By…
Chapter 36
The ride to the mainland on the water ambulance was…
Chapter 37
At last, a pack of his own. With the First…
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Others Books by Jacqueline Sheehan
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Copyright
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Chapter 1
Bob had left the waxed food carton on the counter the night before and it now smelled of grease and fish. Rocky picked up the box and a puddle of oil pooled beneath it. Her husband ate deep fried food when salted fat was the only way to soothe the layers of accumulated sadness after a day telling a pet owner, “Your dog has had a good long life and this cancer won’t be cured by surgery or chemo. Her kidneys are failing. What would you like me to do?” She knew from looking at the contents of the food container that Bob’s day had gone badly yesterday and that his mumbled response to her as he got into bed was a result of self-medication with the worst sort of fast food. “They only change the grease in that place once every week,” she warned him.
They had traveled to Ireland one year and the highlight of the trip for Bob had been learning that the Irish had a polite form of a well-worn expletive that was cleverly one letter off. The first time he heard a storekeeper in Sligo say “Oh feck!” Bob perked up. “Feck?” he asked. “Is that something you can say around your mother?”
“’Tis, as long as you don’t say it about her, if you get what I mean. But don’t you dare say ‘fook’ around Herself,” he explained, pronouncing the expletive with an Irish lilt. Ever since then, Bob said the