“I didn’t say that. You know I don’t come from a traditional family. My boarding school headmistresses didn’t teach me much about personal relationships with the opposite sex, and we both know how well my first husband and I communicated. My problem is—I can’t figure out how couples counseling will help if I don’t have the other half of a couple with me.”
He was silent for so long she thought their discussion was over. She’d started to turn back to the house when he spoke.
“Let me think about it.” The muscle in his jaw tightened. “Will you give me some time to do that?”
“Take all the time you need.”
“I’ll come by in a day or two to check Scooter’s back again where I had to scratch him,” he said.
“I guess I’ll see you then.”
She watched him walk back to his car, get in and drive down the driveway. She was still standing there when Tom’s truck pulled in. He rolled down his window, took one look at her face and stopped where he was. Without saying anything, he got out and carefully pulled her into a silent embrace.
END
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Arlene Sachitano was born at Camp Pendleton while her father was serving in the US Navy. Her family lived in Newport, RI, before settling in Oregon, where Arlene still resides.
Arlene worked in the electronics industry for almost thirty years, including stints in solid state research as well as production supervision. Arlene is handy, being both a knitter and a quilter. She puts her quilting knowledge to work writing the Harriet Truman/Loose Threads mystery series, which features a long-arm quilter as the amateur sleuth.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
April Martinez was born in the Philippines and raised in San Diego, California, daughter to a US Navy chef and a US postal worker, sibling to one younger sister. For years, she went from job to job, dissatisfied that she couldn’t make use of her creative tendencies, until she started working as an imaging specialist for a big book and magazine publishing house in Irvine and began learning the trade of graphic design. From that point on, she worked as a graphic designer and webmaster at subsequent day jobs while doing freelance art and illustration at night. April lives with her cat in Orange County, California, as a full-time freelance artist/illustrator and graphic designer.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
MAKE QUILTS NOT WAR
© 2013 by Arlene Sachitano
ISBN 978-1-61271-140-9 multiple format; 978-1-61271-141-6 EPUB
Cover art and design © April Martinez
All rights reserved. Except for use in review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is prohibited without the written permission of the author or publisher.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sachitano, Arlene, 1951-
Make quilts not war : a Harriet Truman/Loose Threads mystery / Arlene Sachitano.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-61271-139-3 (print/pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61271-140-9 (electronic/multiple format : alk. paper) (print) — ISBN 978-1-61271-141-6 (electronic/epub : alk. paper) (print)
1. Quiltmakers—Fiction. 2. Mystery fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.A277M35 2013
813’.6—dc23
2013001791
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