After Innocence (55 page)
Authors: Brenda Joyce
Mara turned abruptly, head down, and she began to walk slowly up Park Avenue. She told herself that it didn’t matter. They were dead, but their souls lingered; Mara could almost feel them with her, and she knew they were happy and proud. But … the painting belonged to the public.
Mara knew she could not rest until she had learned who had bought
After Innocence.
“And who did buy it, Edward?”
“Do you think I know? Come, Sofie, let’s leave the mystery to Mara—for I can see that she’s dying to solve it.”
A laugh sounded, soft and feminine. His voice rumbled again, but this time low and intimate, impossible to clearly hear.
But even had a passerby heard the ghostly exchange, no one would have cared. After all, this was New York City in 1993, and stranger things happened all the time.
BRENDA JOYCE
A dreamweaver who entices and enchants, a masterful creator of unforgettable characters and incomparable romance, BRENDA JOYCE works magic—from the spellbinding passion of
Splendor
to the searing sensual power of the bestselling Beyond
Scandal.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 1994 by Brenda Joyce Senior
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-123526-9
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