Rise of the Cleveburn Biddies: Chapter 1
Welcome! Please enjoy this first chapter of Rise of the Cleveburn Biddies , an urban cozy mystery coming soon from Napping Cat Press. ROTCB is inspired by a true story. Rise of the Cleveburn Biddies by Jeffrey Dean, writing as E.H. Storm Chapter 1 Vi Brennen stood inside the screen door of the little cottage by the lake, peering out occasionally to see if the car was coming. Sometimes she’d look at the phone on the kitchen wall, her stomach in freefall, and consider calling her sister, Toots, to say that she’d changed her mind. Doing so would ease the anxiety, of course; it would also mean that she would be facing the winter here alone. Really alone, now that Charlie was gone. And while the opaque white cloud of the unknown was scary and nerve-wracking, the dark gray cloud of loneliness that had settled over the cottage was suffocating. And certain . So she didn’t move from the door, and continued...