Chapter 1It was a beautiful Sunday in August. The sky was blue, the temperature was in the low eighties, and a light breeze rippled through the tiger lilies, the Virginia Bluebells, and the glads that bordered our backyard.
Best of all, I had the weekend off.
That wasn’t to say I was lounging around, sucking down mint juleps and working on my tan. The grass in our backyard had a tendency to run wild if I didn’t keep it mowed, so that was how I was spending this day. Clippings filled the bag behind the gas mower, and I planned to use them as mulch for the small garden I’d turned over for Theo. As a Florida boy, he hadn’t been familiar with vegetable gardens, but I was, and he picked it up quickly. He’d planted lettuce, string beans, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, and a variety of
