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A morning in Cascade, before everything changed.
Before the body in the park. Before the questions nobody wanted asked. There was just Ellen Douglas, newly retired, learning how to fill a quiet morning in a town that runs on routine.
Then something small slips out of place. A face that does not belong. A story that does not quite hold. Nothing dramatic, nothing anyone else would notice. But Ellen spent a whole career noticing, and old habits do not retire when you do.
It is a short read, a single sitting, and the gentlest way to meet Ellen before Murder in Cascade arrives on June 12, 2026.
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