If only I could Photoshop out the dust …
This is a picture of some little mementos that I keep in front of my monitor.
- A little zebra that a friend brought back from a mission trip to Africa.
- A tadpole to remind me that we’re all in process of becoming the person God wants us to be.
- A rosebud that fell off a beautiful bookmark from a friend.
- A stone heart that I purchased on a recent trip out of town with friends. To remind me to love at all times.
- 2 pieces of beach glass to remind me of a special time away and that when I feel tossed around by life, it’s just smoothing off the rough jagged edges.
A few weeks ago for several mornings in a row, I found the zebra in the hallway outside the office. Then the heart disappeared. Someone was messing with my mementos. I blamed Stud Muffin for opening and closing the window above my desk too vigorously. I never said it out loud, but I figured that’s what happened.
Until I caught the culprit red-pawed:
I don’t know if he liked the pretty colors or the heft of them against his batting paws.
I just know they kept him enthralled for hours.
I do the same thing. I allow myself to be distracted by pretty things. Time-wasting things. Unimportant things.
It’s been a week or so since the cat swiped anything off my desk. Maybe he’s outgrowing his need for aimless distractions.
I hope I am as well.
Maggie Bennett and Reese Kirkpatrick are caught in a bank robbery. Reese is a new deputy in town and is able to save Maggie when the robbers plan to take her and her baby daughter hostage. The robbers seem more intent on harming Maggie though then getting away with the robbery loot. They stay in town and harass her. Reese is drawn to the strong widow with the baby and vows to keep them safe. 
Maggie Somers is shocked when Zach Collier (a Montague to her Capulet family) turns up in her burglarized grandfather’s home just after the funeral. Zach is convinced her grandfather was murdered, just like his was two weeks ago. When younger, the two men shared possession of maps and a journal that promised Aztec treasure. They fought over a woman and Zach’s grandfather won the woman and the map. Maggie’s got the journal. Now someone is after both elements and have already killed in their quest. It goes against Maggie’s grain to trust a Collier, but it’s the only way to find her grandfather’s murderer. 
Gabby Rogillio is a night DJ in Mystique, Mississippi. Just before the station owner’s planned announcement that he sold the station, he’s knocked unconscious and another employee is dead with the gun near the unconscious owner. Gabby is convinced Robert Ellison, the former owner, is innocent. The new owner, Clark McKay, agrees and they join forces to find out the truth. Both Gabby and Clark receive threats to back off their quest while they fight their growing attraction. 
Andrea Hampton hurries to the small town in the heart of Amish country where her grandmother and sister have been preparing to open the family home as a Bed & Breakfast inn. Andrea’s sister was in an accident and is hospitalized. Andrea can’t abandon the only family she has left so she takes a few weeks off from her job to help get the inn ready. 