Snow Angel (The Hope Falls Chronicles) Read Online Free PDF

foster homes or group homes. She
    guessed that it was pretty specific to the facility or home. Some had been tolerable, a couple had been
    decent, but a good forty percent of them had been horrific. She shuddered now at some of the memories
    that surfaced.
    “This is it. Voila!” Lauren said as she opened the door grandly and flipped on the light.
    Lily stepped into the room and felt tears well in her eyes. It looked to be about four hundred square feet
    with hardwood floors and one entire wall done in mirrors. It was a dancer’s dream space. She felt the tears fall down her cheeks as she spun around to look at it from all angles. It was…perfect.
    “Also, it seemed like being isolated was not something you were comfortable with. There are five
    houses within a mile of this property, which sits on a cul-de-sac. Two which are relatively close, and one of them is owned by the newly appointed Chief of Police.”
    “I’ll take it,” Lily blurted out.
    Lily couldn’t believe that this place was real. Not only did it have an incredible studio and neighbors
    within a stone’s throw, but one of her neighbors was law enforcement. For once in Lily’s life, things were all falling into place.
    Chapter Four
    Lily swallowed over a large lump in her throat as she started up her Jeep and pulled out of the diner’s
    parking lot. This was all happening so fast. She had seen the house for the first time a little over two hours ago and now she was going over to sign papers and move her things in. When she had given Sue Ann the
    key to the apartment and told her about the little house she had rented, Lily had not been able to hide her excitement about the space. She had practically gushed as she described the studio.
    To Lily’s surprise, Sue Ann had seemed genuinely happy for her. Not in the generic, impersonal, “Oh
    that’s nice, dear” sort of way either. Nope, the older woman had squealed and thrown her arms around her,
    pulling her into a big hug. A real hug, filled to the brim with emotion. And that emotion had seeped into
    Lily’s entire being.
    Then, in a move that had shocked Lily down to her bones, Sue Ann had supplied her with at least eight
    meals all packaged and ready to go. The cherry on top was that Sue Ann had remembered a brief
    conversation they had had at the wedding about Lily’s clean eating and had specially made her dishes with
    that in mind.
    The whole exchange felt unreal to Lily. Starting with the fact that she had happily spilled the news about
    her newly acquired rental property to a woman she barely knew. That behavior was very out of character
    for Lily. She tended to keep things close to the vest. Up until two years ago, she’d had to. Sharing personal information hadn’t been an option.
    Then the fact that Sue Ann had not only been ecstatic about her news but also her generosity in making
    sure that Lily had personalized meals and didn’t have to worry about getting to the grocery store right away was mind-blowing. The people that Lily had met here so far seemed to be cut from a different cloth.
    Driving down the main strip of Hope Falls, Lily was struck once again by the charming character of the
    town. The wooden sidewalks could have been straight out of the Wild West; she half-expected to see horses
    tied up along the street. There was an adorable bookstore called Read Between the Lines, and next to that
    was an old-fashioned ice cream parlor aptly named Two Scoops.
    Scanning Main Street, Lily did a double take as she saw a huge Great Dane trotting down the middle of
    the road just as happy as could be. She quickly looked up and down the street, alarmed, trying to see if she could locate the dog’s owner. She didn’t have any luck with that, but she did notice that a lot of the people walking on the sidewalks were waving and greeting the dog. He didn’t seem at all concerned about his solo
    walkabout and neither did anyone else.
    Hmm , she thought. Maybe he is like the town mascot or