Fade to White by Wendy Clinch
By Wendy Clinch
Heavy snow is falling on Spruce height while Stacey Curtis returns in her moment snowboarding secret. Hollywood has-been Harper Stone arrives in Stacey’s little Vermont city to shoot a mouthwash advertisement, and he’s faraway from satisfied approximately it. while the actor turns up dead—and the final individual to work out him alive is Brian Russell, Stacey’s jealous ex-fianc?—Stacey can’t aid yet get entangled.
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She didn’t sleep all that well. Between Brian’s arrival and the lack of snow, things were going downhill around here fast, and her dreams were oppressive. Nothing but misery and melt. Come morning she squeezed her eyes shut against the light and lay in bed listening while Megan Ramsey made coffee in the kitchen, and when everything was quiet again she pulled on her robe and went out to wait for the first cup. She leaned against the doorsill with her bare feet cold on the linoleum. Beyond the kitchen window the Rutland Herald lay in the gravel drive, wrapped in thin blue plastic.
There were a few new faces that hadn’t been in the Binding last night: the blond actress, an angry-looking guy in a leather coat who sat smoking a cigarette and looking at the sky, and last but not least, the star of the operation, Harper Stone himself, who had just finished doctoring his coffee at the window of the catering truck and was sidling over toward Stacey as if he’d been invited. “Hey,” she said, taking off her helmet. ” Behind dark glasses, Stone knitted his famous brow. ” Stacey looked from him to Chip and back again, and let it drop.
But under ordinary circumstances she wouldn’t have been stopping at the Slippery Slope. The place was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, the biggest ski shop in town but also the emptiest. Biggest as in the most square footage and the widest selection of gear. Emptiest as in no customers, ever. It was weird, is what it was. As many times as Stacey had driven by the place since she’d first come to town, there was hardly ever more than a single car in the parking lot. As often as she’d stop in to check out the merchandise, there was never more than a couple of customers in the place.