The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)

by Jess Lourey

“I wasn’t raised by wolves.” Evangeline tossed her head. “Though it would have been an improvement.”

Still, he’d never visited a nursing home for serial killers.

Her favorite saying had been gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ear.

“Don’t you see?” she continued. “We shouldn’t do anything for the dead. We have only one job on this earth, and it has to do with the living: we must love those put in our path as hard as we can, every day.”