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Crimson Eve
Kanner Lake [3]
Brandilyn Collins
Christian Fiction, USA
(2006)
Realtor Carla Radling shows an 'English
gentleman' a lakeside estate--and finds herself facing a gun. Who has
hired this assassin to kill her, and why? Forced on the run, Carla must
uncover the scathing secrets of her past. Secrets that could destroy
some very powerful people. Perhaps even change the face of a nation ...

PRAISE FOR BRANDILYN COLLINS’ KANNER LAKE SERIES

“. . . fast-paced … interesting details of police procedure and crime scene investigation . . . beautifully developed [characters] …”


Publishers Weekly
for
Violet Dawn

“. . . a magnificent storyteller. Ms. Collins has written another fantastic mystery and
Violet Dawn
is a great beginning to a new series.”


FreshFiction.com

“Collins’ ability to bring characters to life rivals that of Barbara Kingsolver [
The Poisonwood Bible
]. If you’re afraid of the dark, live in a house that squeaks, or are terrified by things that go bump in the night, try reading
Coral Moon
in broad daylight.”


TitleTrakk.com

Other Books by Brandilyn Collins

Kanner Lake Series

1 | Violet Dawn

2 | Coral Moon

3 | Crimson Eve

Hidden Faces Series

1 | Brink of Death

2 | Stain of Guilt

3 | Dead of Night

4 | Web of Lies

Bradleyville Series

1 | Cast a Road Before Me

2 | Color the Sidewalk for Me

3 | Capture the Wind for Me

Chelsea Adams Series

1 | Eyes of Elisha

2 | Dread Champion

HELP CREATE THE KANNER LAKE WORLD

Write a Post for Scenes and Beans—
And Win a Signed Copy of Any Kanner Lake Novel!

Scenes and Beans, the Kanner Lake character blog, features many of the Java Joint folks you’ll meet in
Crimson Eve
. Their entertaining posts are written in real time, according to events in this story. And they’re created by
you
— the readers of the series!

Visit Scenes and Beans at
www.kannerlake.blogspot.com
.

For details on auditioning a post, go to
www.kannerlake.com/
scenesandbeans.html
.

Want to Discuss
Crimson Eve
with Your Book Club?

Insightful questions about the story and how it

applies to your life can be found at
www.kannerlake.com/discussions

ZONDERVAN

CRIMSON EVE

Copyright © 2007 by Brandilyn Collins

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

ePub Edition January 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-31718-0

This title is also available as a Zondervan audio product.

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Requests for information should be addressed to:

Zondervan,
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Collins, Brandilyn.

Crimson eve / Brandilyn Collins.

p. cm.

ISBN-13:978-0-310-25225-2
1. Women real estate agents—Fiction. 2. Resorts—Fiction. 3. Idaho—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.O4747815C75 2007
813'.6—dc22
2007012727

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the
Holy Bible: New International Version
®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other — except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For Sister #3,

Sandy Sheppard,

a.k.a. “Perfect Sister.”

Because you are.

(It helps that you prayed for me to be born.)

CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE : Exposed

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

PART TWO : Driven

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

TWENTY-THREE

TWENTY-FOUR

TWENTY-FIVE

TWENTY-SIX

TWENTY-SEVEN

TWENTY-EIGHT

TWENTY-NINE

THIRTY

THIRTY-ONE

THIRTY-TWO

THIRTY-THREE

THIRTY-FOUR

THIRTY-FIVE

THIRTY-SIX

THIRTY-SEVEN

THIRTY-EIGHT

THIRTY-NINE

FORTY

FORTY-ONE

FORTY-TWO

FORTY-THREE

FORTY-FOUR

FORTY-FIVE

FORTY-SIX

FORTY-SEVEN

FORTY-EIGHT

FORTY-NINE

FIFTY

FIFTY-ONE

FIFTY-TWO

FIFTY-THREE

FIFTY-FOUR

FIFTY-FIVE

FIFTY-SIX

FIFTY-SEVEN

PART THREE : Collision

FIFTY-EIGHT

FIFTY-NINE

SIXTY

SIXTY-ONE

SIXTY-TWO

SIXTY-THREE

SIXTY-FOUR

SIXTY-FIVE

SIXTY-SIX

SIXTY-SEVEN

SIXTY-EIGHT

SIXTY-NINE

SEVENTY

SEVENTY-ONE

SEVENTY-TWO

SEVENTY-THREE

SEVENTY-FOUR

SEVENTY-FIVE

SEVENTY-SIX

SEVENTY-SEVEN

SEVENTY-EIGHT

SEVENTY-NINE

EIGHTY

EIGHTY-ONE

EIGHTY-TWO

PART FOUR : Reparation

EIGHTY-THREE

EIGHTY-FOUR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Be sure to read book four in the Kanner Lake series, Amber Morn.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

“Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?” cried he. . . .

“It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne,

The House of Seven Gables

What is past is prologue.

— William Shakespeare,
The Tempest

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before;

and God will call the past to account.

— Ecclesiastes 3:15

INTRODUCTION

Dear Reader,

Back for more, are you?

In
Coral Moon
(second in the Kanner Lake series), I warned you that the wheels of the roller coaster on which you were about to embark just might leave earth. For
Crimson Eve
, I issue a warning of another kind. This roller coaster stays on the track, all right. But it is frighteningly long, its cars stretching so far that the front one catches up to the back. Or is it that the back circles around to meet the front?

Imagine being on a ride in which you do not know the start or the end. Which car is pushing, which is pulling? Which one drives the rickety climb to the top, the stomachless plunge to the bottom? Which one determines when you stop? Whether or not you’ve made it to safety?

If you find your way off this thing, you might look about you, check your possessions. Not everyone who boards leaves with all that was brought. I’ll let you decide if that is a good thing.

And now — you know the drill. Keep y
our hands inside the car, strap yourself i
n tight, and don’t forget to
b r e a t h e
. . .

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