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    Crime at Cripple Creek: Sisters' week Series, #1
    Crime at Cripple Creek: Sisters' week Series, #1
    Crime at Cripple Creek: Sisters' week Series, #1
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    Crime at Cripple Creek: Sisters' week Series, #1

    By Elizabeth Sherry

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    Beth is flying to Colorado for a week with her two sisters, Joy and Lynn. On the flight she is seated next to a very handsome, single FBI agent named Tyler. Both Tyler and Beth can feel a strong attraction growing by the time their plane lands in Denver. Beth is distracted by this attraction but knows this week is primarily for the three sisters to laugh, be silly and have fun, which they start off doing until Beth stumbles upon a dead body and Tyler is worried that he might not be able to keep Beth alive long enough for the two to explore the romance they briefly started.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScarecrow Books
    Release dateSep 8, 2013
    ISBN9781497731158
    Crime at Cripple Creek: Sisters' week Series, #1

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      Crime at Cripple Creek - Elizabeth Sherry

      Books by Elizabeth Sherry:

      Under the Aspens (The Aspen Series #1)

      The Aspens Fall (The Aspen Series #2)

      Remember the Aspens (The Aspen Series #3)

      The Aspens Collection (The Aspen Series Box Set)

      Crime at Cripple Creek (The Sisters Week Series #1)

      Murder at Myrtle Beach (The Sisters Week Series #2)

      Trapped In Tunica (The Sisters Week Series #3)

      The Sister’s Week Series: Volumes 1-3 (Box Set)

      Alone and Afraid (Rocky Mountain Home Series #1)

      On the Run (Rocky Mountain Home Series #2)

      Not Her Baby (Rocky Mountain Home Series #3)

      Deadly White Christmas (Angel Mountain Scents Series #1)

      This book is dedicated to my two sisters, Robin and Cathy, who help provide joy, fun and lifetime memories, but most of all they help provide an abundance of silliness and uncontrollable laughter.  I love you both.

      Coming November 9, 2013

      Deadly White Christmas

      Prologue

      December 22nd

      She hung up the cell phone and finished smoking her cigarette.  She knew Dani and Erica didn’t approve of smoking, but they were realists and knew the women who had this bad habit felt as though they needed to keep it.  Therefore, the women were provided with buckets outside the safe house and barn for their butts.  They were each cautioned on safety; not only fire safety, but also their own safety, and told to stay next to the buildings while they smoked.  They were not to wander off without a companion.

      After putting the cigarette butt in the bucket filled with sand, she went back inside the barn.  While she hung her coat back up where all the other coats hung, she secretly replaced the phone back inside Erica’s coat pocket, where she had taken it before going on break.

      For the next three hours, she worried that she might have made a big mistake calling him yesterday and setting up this meeting.  The last time she spoke to him, before yesterday, was from the sheriff’s office, after she gave her statement.  She promised to call again when it was safe.  That was almost a week ago.  She felt enough time had gone by that now it was safe.  One of the rules here was no phone calls, period.  She knew it was for everyone’s safety, but she didn’t see any harm in calling him.  He only wanted to see her and make sure that she was all right.  He wouldn’t compromise the safe house, even if he knew where it was, which he didn’t. She made plans to meet him a short distance from the barn the next afternoon, which was now, today, during her break.  And if she were lucky, no one would find out.

      It was hard for her to act normal when her stomach churned.  She felt guilty deceiving Dani, Erica, and the other women here, as she found herself constantly watching the clock, counting down the time until her next break.

      The time finally came, and she rushed to retrieve her coat and then walked out of the barn.  She took off running toward the forest on the left side of the barn.  It was hard to run in afoot of freshly fallen snow, but she made good time.

      He wasn’t there yet, and though it was against the rules, she lit her cigarette and smoked.  She had smoked two and was in the process of lighting a third, when a hand came over her mouth.

      You scream and you’re dead.  Is that understood? He said in a very deep voice next to her ear.

      She nodded her head, though she was almost too terrified to move.

      I’m going to remove my hand and you won’t make a sound except to answer my questions.  Do you understand?  The voice spoke into her ear again.  And again, she nodded her head.

      Do not turn around, just stand perfectly still and you won’t be hurt.  If you try to scream or run, I will kill you.  Is this completely clear?

      She was too terrified to answer, but when he pulled her head back, and she saw the blade of the knife, she nodded uncontrollably.

      She stood as still as a statue, wondering who this person was.  He wasn’t the man she was scheduled to meet.  Before her thoughts took her any further, he asked, Where is she?  Where is Karen?

      She knew she was in serious trouble, but she was not going to give out information that would harm any of the women here.  So she said, I don’t know any Karen.

      She felt the knife slice through her coat sleeve, but before she could cry out, he covered her mouth again.  She felt the blood running down her arm as the tears ran down her face.  She tried to remember some of the self-defense moves that Dani and Erica taught at the safe house, but her mind was almost as frozen as her body.

      I will ask you again, and this time you will tell me what I want to hear.  Where is Karen, and where is the safe house? he snarled.

      She tried to recall what to do in this situation, but realized that she hadn’t paid very close attention in class.  Again, she said that she didn’t know any Karen.

      This time, she felt the knife slice her leg, and she almost crumbled.  If he hadn’t pulled her up, she would’ve hit the snow covered ground.

      This is your last chance.  Where is she?  He whispered next to her ear.

      When he removed his hand in order for her to answer, she made a pitiful move to backhand him in the face with her fist and was set to run, but he recovered in a flash and as he turned her to face him, he plunged the knife into her chest.  Her last thought, as she fell to the ground, was of the mountain angels.

      He didn’t even try to hide his crime.  He left the way he came and vowed to find Karen. He was going to teach her a final lesson on what happened when someone tried to leave him.  He also planned to teach an even bigger lesson to the ones who helped her leave him.

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      Crime At Cripple Creek

      Elizabeth Sherry

      Chapter 1

      I’ll see you in a few hours and then we can let the fun begin!  Beth told her sister, Joy.  After the quick conversation ended, Beth hung up the phone.  She had a lot to do before her trip. 

      Beth had two sisters and the three of them tried to get away together for at least two weeks out of each year.  The three sisters called this time their sisters week.

      Beth lived outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and worked managing a major grocery store.  She was so looking forward to getting away from all the stress and upheaval of the job, even if it was only for one week.

      Joy, the middle sister, lived in Colorado and had the stress of being branch manager of a bank.  So, she too needed a break.

      The youngest of the three sisters was Lynn, who lived in North Carolina.  She worked two jobs, and just last month got her degree in health care.

      When the sisters got together, they tried to leave all the negative stuff in their lives behind because sisters week was the time for laughter and fun.  None of the sisters were married, nor in a serious relationship. They worked very hard at their careers, and finding time to be together was truly hard.  It had been over seven months since their last time together, so they were all looking forward to this week.

      As Beth packed, she tried to decide exactly what she would be doing, and where she would be going while on vacation.  She knew she was going to Colorado, but didn’t know all the places they would visit while in Colorado. 

      They’d be staying in a large cabin in the mountains close to Cripple Creek.  Although

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