CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
The address Kate had gotten for Jeremy Neely was just on the outskirts of Roanoke, in a tiny little town called Deerborne. The drive itself only took about twenty minutes but because they had spent several hours in Dr. Ethridge’s office, it was closing in on 5:30 when Kate and DeMarco pulled up in front of Jeremy Neely’s home.
The house was an older two-story house. It was in a low-income neighborhood, the streets uncared for and the lawns mostly dead and gray. An air conditioner unit stuck out of one of the side windows like a rotten tooth about to fall out. It was running, making an awful racket as it leaked a trail of water down the side of the house.
They walked up the concrete stairs and onto the porch. As Kate neared the door, her right hand hovered over the ha
