Chapter Fifty Seven: — AFTER LUNCH DAKOTA walked the few feet to her office, catching only bits of Lauren’s phone conversation, but what she did hear hinted that something must be happening. Lauren would be off doing her investigative reporting, and she, Dakota, was heading in to wait for emails. At least she’d had one call about a house, and it sounded promising. A couple from Plainview, Reta and Howard Wilson, had called this morning and wanted to come down and look at everything Crossroads had under a hundred-fifty thousand. Something with trees, he’d said. Something away from any railroad tracks or grade schools, she’d insisted. Something with a sunset view, they both claimed, was a must. Dakota had emailed them the two listings that kind of fit. One had huge pecan trees in the big

