Northwest of Sedona, Arizona
The present day
He came with the dark…
The first night in her new home, Arabella fell asleep on the pallet she spread among the boxes in the great room downstairs. Exhaustion claimed her almost before her head touched the pillow.
By the next night, she’d set up her beloved antique sleigh bed in the strange upper room she’d claimed for her private sanctuary. And that was where he came to her the first time…
She’d heard about Sedona forever, what a Mecca it was for artists and of all the mysteries and wonders locked amidst the rosy turrets and towers, the coral battlements and castellations of Coconino sandstone. Six months earlier, she’d held an exhibit in Talaquepac, spending three weeks in the area while her paintings and photographs were on display. Now
