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Through Gina’s interactions with Leonard and Dorothy, old grudges unravel as specific details surface and apologies take shape. With her family now communicating again after major upheaval, Gina finds ordinary routines—harbor mornings, a reopened tea room, and upcoming gatherings—becoming a grounded counterpoint to haunting.","OCEANOFPDF. COM  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nAlso by Leighann Dobbs  \nAbout Leighann Dobbs  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nTHE FINLEYS WERE MAKING PROGRESS .  \nTwo months ago Dorothy had come in hot about a gravy boat. This morning she settled into her chair across from me with the careful ease of a woman who had been practicing, and Leonard materialized in the opposite corner before she’d even finished unbuttoning her coat.  \n“He’s here already,” I said.  \n“I know.” Dorothy had stopped looking at the wrong spot. She addressed the air slightly to her left now, which was about three feet off, but she was trying.“Leonard. I want to talk about the Hendersons.”  \nLeonard’s ghost crossed his arms, but the gesture had gone soft around the edges. He looked like a man performing stubbornness rather than feeling it.“I thought we settled the Hendersons.”  \n“He says he thought you settled the Hendersons.” I told her.  \n“We settled the silver. The Hendersons are a separate conversation.”I relayed this. Leonard made a sound that was not quite a laugh.  \n“She always could hold two grudges at once,” he said, with something in his voice that sounded almost like admiration.  \nThe October light came through the cottage windows at a long angle, the way it did this time of year, turning the small front room amber. I had put a bowl of late chrysanthemums on the table—gold and rust—because the Merriwell tea room had started carrying flowers from a farm up the coast and I’d developed a habit I couldn’t explain. The cottage smelled like coffee and cold salt air. It always smelled like coffee and cold salt air.  \nIn the kitchen doorway, the ghost of my late mother-in-law, Rosaria, stood watching the session with the expression she used when she was pretending not to be interested. Housecoat. Hair pinned. Arms folded across her chest. Her eyes moved between Leonard and Dorothy the way they always did during the sessions—taking inventory, cataloguing details she would analyze later whether I wanted her to or not.  \nShe was a little more translucent than she’d been in August. Not dramatically. You wouldn’t notice unless you’d been watching, and I had been watching, and I noticed.  \nI was not thinking about it this morning.  \nThe session ran its full hour. By the end, Dorothy had extracted from Leonard a full account of the Henderson barbecue—which had involved, apparently, a remark about his potato salad that she had been making for thirty years and which he had considered beneath comment and which she had not realized he’d heard. Leonard, for his part, admitted that the potato salad remark had been a small grievance he had attached to a larger one he had never named, and that the larger one was something he now understood had been his own fault, and that he was sorry for the Henderson barbecue and several related barbecues spanning the years 1988 through 1994.  \nDorothy cried. Not the stuck grief of the first session, but something cleaner. Relief moving through.  \n“Same time next week?” she asked at the door.  \n“Same time.”  \nShe patted my arm.“You do good work, Gina.”  \nAfter she left I stood in the empty front room for a moment, listening to the harbor. A gull. A boat engine. The quiet of a weekday morning in October when the summer people were gone and the town had settled back into itself.  \n“She’s going to be fine,” Rosaria said from behind me.  \n“She is.”  \n“Leonard, on the other hand, still doesn’t fully grasp the significance of 1994. But that’s men.” She drifted toward the kitchen.“Your phone is buzzing.”  \nMy daughter, Carmen, had sent a text. Carmen was always sending texts. She had the energy of someone who had decided that communication was a gift you gave people whether they had asked for it or not.  \nMom. 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