Chapter Five
Monday morning
Emily Booker grabbed her bag of books from the hall coat tree and bolted through the front door. She was late for work—which mattered only to Emily since no one at the research institute clocked in. They worked on the honors system, all too proud, too educated and responsible to punch clocks and worry over the small stuff when they were dealing with life-threatening matters such as global warming and animal extinction.
Emily had been working at the institute for five years as a research librarian with a gift for investigations—someone said she should have been a detective. She liked the intrigue behind her work… must have been an innate gift lying fallow for the perfect moment when she let her efforts shine. Her talent had truly come in handy in the last few
