Cissy never planned on being a widow at fifty-four. She never planned on praying for her husband to die. After losing her husband to cancer, newly-widowed Cissy takes a solo car trip along the Oregon coast in the hope of reliving happier memories. She needs the time alone to think. To rid herself of the guilt she feels over her husband's death. Most of all, she needs to discover who she is now that she's no longer Harry's wife. The answers come from a place Cissy never expected, and it all starts with a name drawn in the sand. "The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked." -- Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE, forthcoming from WestSide Press Annie Reed is a prolific, award-winning writer whose fiction has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as well as in numerous anthologies from Daw and Pocket Books.