Joe was dying, and they weren’t going to be able to save him. That was why they were going to let Eve go to him. To say good-bye.
She couldn’t say good-bye. He had to stay with her.
She leaned her head on the plate-glass window and closed her eyes. She felt the tears running down her cheeks as the agony flowed through her.
Look at him. Surely she’d be able to know, to sense some change. Maybe they were wrong. Doctors didn’t know everything.
She took a deep breath and opened her eyes. She stiffened in shock.
Bonnie.
Bonnie standing by Joe’s bed, looking down at him.
Her expression … Love. Perfect love.
Why was she here?
The fear became terror.
To take him away, to ease the transition from this life to the next?
“No, Bonnie!”
Bonnie looked across the room at Eve standing behind the glass.
She smiled luminously, but then turned back again to gaze down at Joe with that same expression of love.
Oh God, what did that smile mean?
Could she help him to live?
Or could she only help him to die?
Eve’s palms pressed against the cold glass as tension and sorrow tore through her.
“Joe!”
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by Iris Johansen.
On sale July 12, 2011
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
EVE. Copyright © 2011 by Johansen Publishing LLLP. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johansen, Iris.
Eve / Iris Johansen.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-65120-6
1. Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Facial reconstruction (Anthropology)—Fiction. 3. Women sculptors—Fiction. 4. Missing children—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3560.O275E84 2011
813'.54—dc22
2010046789
First Edition: April 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-2016-2
First St. Martin’s Press eBook Edition: April 2011