17.1 – April Fool

(Continued from Chapter 16.3 – Hook, Line & Sinker; to start book, scroll to "Chapters" in right side bar.) On April Fool's Day it rains and then snows and then rains again. The walls of Rich and Shirley's house clamp down like the sides of an enormous vice, squeezing the breath from Veronica's lungs. She's rummaged through the bin of DVDs in search of a movie she can watch with Luc and Céleste, one they haven't all seen a hundred times, but the sickeningly familiar characters and cartoonish ...