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of years, honey.”
     She told her daughter how ordinary rainwater over thousands of years had carved out underground caverns and caves in the limestone.
     “As the water travels in these caves and caverns, it has to come out somewhere. The springs are where it comes out.”
    They always carried goggles, and Danni had shown Hannah where the caverns were in each one of the springs. “Promise me you’ll
     never swim in there.”
    “I promise, Mommy.”
    Danni had firsthand knowledge of both the danger and the spectacular nature of the caves and caverns of these particular springs.
     She was a certified scuba diver, and she and Mike had explored these caverns years ago before Hannah was born and before she
     discovered that Mike was one of those assholes who needed more than one woman to satisfy his needs. She kept forgiving him
     and letting him come back home until finally he’d left her for a woman ten years her junior. There was no coming back after
     that, and the experience had soured her on men in general.
    Hannah’s promise not to explore the caverns was enough for Danni. On this day, after about an hour of swimming in the crystal
     clear water, which was a constant seventy-two degrees year round, Danni retired to her beach chair to read while Hannah continued
     to play.
    The springs were literally holes in the ground that you had to walk down into, and stairs had been constructed for that purpose.
     The cedar, the oak, and the pine formed a canopy above so that very little direct sunlight filtered in. Again, it was a Florida
     the ordinary tourist would never see.
    Danni left her book every once in a while and walked over to the springs and looked down on her daughter who was having a
     ball. She had found a girl her age to play with.
    While Danni was sitting in her beach chair reading and relaxing for the first time in months, her cell phone rang.
    “Hello.”
    “You lost your only witness, didn’t you?” the voice on the other end said.
    “Who is this?”
    “You know who it is.”
    Danni could feel her blood pressure rising. He was getting pretty brave now. “You piece of shit. I’m gonna nail your ass.”
    “You shouldn’t leave your daughter in a watering hole where you can’t see her.”
    The words took a moment to register. Danni threw the cell phone down and raced for the water, not knowing what to expect.
     Was that son of a bitch down there? Had he grabbed Hannah?
    Hannah was fine. She was still playing with her newfound friend. Danni took a long deep breath and exhaled. For just a split
     second her life had hung in the balance. Then the cop in her took over. She looked around. There weren’t too many people at
     the springs that day and most of them were women with their children. She couldn’t see him, but he had to be there somewhere.
     She ran back to the blanket and chair, retrieved her cell phone and called the desk sergeant at the Apache County Sheriff’s
     Office. She recognized Bill Rose’s voice right away.
    “Bill, this is Danni Jansen. I’m out at Whiskey River Springs and I just got a call from our killer. He’s out here somewhere.”
    “I’ll get some cars out there right away, Danni.”
    “There’s only one road in and out of here, Bill.”
    “We’ll set up roadblocks at each end. If he’s still in there, he won’t get out.”
    Danni next called Captain Jeffries directly and gave him the news so he wouldn’t get his information secondhand over the radio.
    “I’ll send a task force unit out there as well, Danni. Why don’t you take your daughter home. This could get a little hairy.”
    Danni wanted to be there, but she knew that his advice was sound. “I will, Captain. Thanks.”
    Getting Hannah out of the water was no easy task.
    “Come on, Hannah, we have to go.”
    “We just got here, Mommy.”
    “I know, honey, but we’ve got to go now.”
    The sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene just as Danni and Hannah finished packing up. Everybody was ordered