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Authors: S. J. Rozan

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“But if I’d

”

“You didn’t.”

“What?”

“Whatever you were going to say you should have done, might have done, wish you’d done. Whatever it is, you didn’t, and you can’t, and this is where we are now.”

She looked up at him. “Where we are?”

“Here.” He spread his arms, showed her the garden. “Come with me.”

She followed him across the yard to the hill, where the rudbeckia was now as high as her waist. “They need to be weeded,” Joe said.

Ann stood, unsure, no direction to go.

“It’s going to rain.” Joe crouched by the flower bed, started to work, separating the things he didn’t want to keep from the things he did.

Ann looked up. Opulent clouds floated in the sapphire sky. Rain? She didn’t know how he knew that, didn’t know if it was true. Well, she thought, I guess I’ll have to wait and see.

She knelt and joined him.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S. J. ROZAN is the author of the acclaimed novel Absent Friends, in addition to eight novels in the award-winning Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series. Born and raised in the Bronx, Rozan is an architect in a New York firm and lives in Greenwich Village, where she is at work on her next novel of suspense.

ALSO BY S. J. ROZAN

Absent Friends

IN THIS RAIN

A Delacorte Press Book / January 2007

Published by Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved

Copyright Š 2006 by S. J. Rozan

Excerpt from “The Orphan of Zhao” by Stephin Merritt used by permission of Gay and Loud Music.

Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rozan, S. J.

In this rain / S. J. Rozan.

p. cm.

eISBN-13: 978-0-440-33654-9

eISBN-10: 0-440-33654-6

1. New York (N.Y.)— Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.O99 I6 2006

813.’ 54 22 2006047405

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