Colin. Our love affair was all in my head. But Bay, even though I thought he was going to arrest me, made it easy to talk to him. But what I think really made me sit up and take notice of Bay was the way he interrogated Darius Hamilton. He was so forceful and fierce. It made me tingle all over. Who doesn’t like a man like that?
“I always just thought he was cute,” I said defending myself. “I wasn’t trying to move in with him.”
“That’s not what you told me,” Bay said. I was sitting on his lap. He, Miss Vivee and I were sitting in the dining room when they had decided to tease me about “having eyes,” as Miss Vivee put it, for Colin Pritchard, The Murderer.
“It’s a good thing for your mother that you got me to look after you,” Miss Vivee said. “Otherwise, I don’t know what might’ve happen to you.” Miss Vivee patted me on my knee and shook her head. “Bless your heart.”
“I know what would have happened to her, Grandmother,” Bay said and tugged at my ear. “She would have been filling out the visitation forms at the Brentwood Correctional Facility so she could visit her convict boyfriend and take prison pictures to post on Facebook.”
“Oh yeah. You two are real funny,” I said and hopped up off of Bay’s leg. “But lucky for you both, I picked the right one in the end.”
“You sure did,” Miss Vivee said. “You couldn’t ask for a better man than my grandson.”
Miss Vivee was right about that, I thought, my eyes beaming. She had been right about so much. She knew from the start that Gemma had dry drowned. I found out that she and Mac had seen a case of a boy, years earlier that had died the same way. That’s how they knew the symptoms.
And Miss Vivee made the right call when she said the sandstone steps at Mims Point Park could have been what killed her. It was actually the combination of the hard hit from Colin’s fist and the fall that did it. But Miss Vivee knew that, too. And she said, she could tell by the injury to Colin’s hand, when we told her that the person arguing with Gemma had hit the tree, that it couldn’t be anyone but him.
Colin was being charged with involuntary manslaughter, which in the State of Georgia carried a prison term of one to ten years. He was standing trial though. He said that his actions weren’t reckless and he couldn’t have known what he did would cause Gemma’s death, elements that must be proven to convict him. My uncle, Greg and my brother, Micah, both lawyers, agreed that if he got himself a good lawyer, he might could prove that in court and get off on the murder charges.
I was just glad I hadn’t acted on the feelings I thought I had for him.
Everything had changed for me and I couldn’t have been happier. I called my parents to tell them about Bay, and my mother told me she’d got me permission to start an excavation on the Island. (Yay!) Renmar and Oliver didn’t seem too happy about that (I never did find out what their conspiratorial actions were all about), but Renmar was happy that I was staying on at the Maypop. As was Koryn Razner.
Miss Vivee had given her a room so she could stay at the Maypop until she got on her feet, which probably wouldn’t be long because Viola Rose and her husband, Gus, had offered her a job at the Jellybean Café.
Bay was going back to work, but he wouldn’t ever be too far, he had promised. Sometimes, I hate to say it out loud, but crime does pay. Because of me trespassing at Track Rock Gap, I found the best FBI guy in all of Georgia. Nay, in the entire world, who I wouldn’t mind if he kept me in his custody forever.
The End
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A Note from the Author
This is my first cozy mystery and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it. There are more to come, so be sure to follow Logan, Bay and Miss Vivee on their adventures – they’ll be filled with mystery, murder and even a little romance.
Logan Dickerson is the daughter of the main character in my Mars Origin “I” Series. (So if you like mysteries with just a touch of sci-fi, you might want to check them out!). Logan is from Ohio (like me), but her stories are based in Georgia. I love the coastline there and thought it would be a perfect setting for a cozy mystery.
Some of the places in the book are real. Like Stallings Island and Track Rock Gap. The Maya invasion into North America is a theory proposed by some archaeologists and first seen by me on America Unearthed on the History Channel. Check it out. It’s a fascinating theory. Yasamee, while a real Native American name, is a fictional place.
Thanks to all my beta readers: Kathryn Dionne, Dennis Whittaker, Erika Place, and Michael Lewis. The book is better because of you.
This book is dedicated to my granddaughter, Sydne. My red-headed girl is always full of interesting stories.
I appreciate all my reviews and look forward to reading what you thought about my book. Grammatical errors are of course unintended, so if you find any, just email me and let me know what you’ve found.
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In the Beginning: Mars Origin “I” Series Book I
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Irrefutable Proof: Mars Origin “I” Series Book II
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Incarnate: Mars Origin “I” Series Book III
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At the End of the Line
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Mysticism and Myths
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