Full Moon Over Sandi Ridge Mountain
Storms of the Mind 2
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Chapter 1
Leigh Ritchie pasted her face against the mucky window as she tried to focus her vision through the steel bars. Unless her eyesight was deceiving her badly; there stood that overgrown toad, Sheriff Harmon, from Colton! As usual, he stood flapping his fat jaws, yakking to her doctor. What in the name of creation was he doing here at the insane asylum? Was there no escaping that impossible piece of blubber?
“I guess one has to die to get away from him!” she fumed.
Still unable to believe her eyes; she yanked up the tail of her dress, spit on it, and made a small circle on the soiled windowpane.
“It is him!” An agitated frown claimed her wrinkled face as she studies, Joseph Harmon, with her spiky gaze.
“Knowing the lug as I do, he is most likely trying to get me more time in this asylum!” Puffing inwardly, she hurls the Colton Sheriff another blistering scowl.
“Well, it won’t work! Not this time, Toad!”
Pointing her thin finger in his direction, she shouts.
“Go back to Colton and leave me be! Soon I will be free. There’s nothing more that you can do to keep me here, Sheriff Harmon! I don’t intend to stay locked up in here much longer. I have paid my debt and no one can say different.”
Slowly she walks over to her bed and lifts the corner of her mattress. Stillness claims her face as she unfolds a wrinkled note she had received from Cresco Williams.
“Soon I may leave here with peace of mind,” she whispers. A familiar, bitter gloom settles within her as she turns and looks around the small dingy room.
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About the Book
For as long as folks could remember, old Leigh Ritchie had danced to the strange voices that ruled her mind, and she made their lives miserable. Most thought she was wicked and hopelessly insane, so no one was surprised when Sheriff Joseph Harmon hauled her off to the insane asylum for murdering her father. Sheriff Harmon knew she was innocent, but when she came up with the outrageous idea to stay five years in the asylum so she could earn forgiveness from her dead sister, he was glad to see her go. Ten years later he finds himself trapped in her eccentric world and her cold eyes makes it clear that she will never allow him to escape.
About the Author
Barbara Sue Bevins was born in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia. She is the daughter of a retired coalminer and one of ten children. She enjoys painting, writing, and spending time with her family and friends. In January of 2005 she published her first fiction novel, "Storms of the Mind." Full Moon over Sandi Ridge Mountain is the second book in this series. She resides in Coeburn, Virginia with her husband Jim, and her daughter Michele.