Chapter 8
Monday arrives, and my two-day tour of book signings and lectures begins.
I arrive an hour early at Milestone County’s only mom-and-pop bookshop, The Book Nook, and meet up with the shop’s owners and longstanding friends, Ben and Sara Palters.
Staring at the bookshop’s picture window, I observe an elaborate display of paperbacks of my newest novel, Buried Secrets, piled on a display table in front of the store. A larger-than-life placard of the book’s cover hangs on the back wall of the room where I’ll be speaking.
I smile and look away from the display to somebody waving enthusiastically from behind the window. It is my friend Sara.
She motions me inside.
A tiny bell rings overhead as I step in to the warm and cozy bookshop. Sara offers me a hot cup of Earl Grey and two sh
