CHAPTER 4
4:13 pm, the day before the Winter Solstice
THE PLANE LANDED WITH a jerk and then a roar that nearly deadened Kennedy’s senses. Just a few minutes after four, but the sun had already set. She didn’t know if her brain was playing tricks on her or not, but she shivered with cold when she looked out at the snow piled up on the sides of the runway.
She couldn’t wait to get off this plane. She’d been either in the air or waiting in some terminal for the past fourteen hours.
“You have someone here to pick you up?” the woman sitting next to her asked. They hadn’t talked much on the flight, only enough for Kennedy to know she was here visiting a new grandbaby.
Kennedy nodded. “My roommate’s coming.”
The grandmother smiled. “Well, tell her I hope it’s a beautiful wedding.”
“I will.
