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Chapter 1Copper City, New Mexico August 12 For the first time since the brutal shock of her husband’s sudden death, Keely Sandoval felt a faint flicker of hope. It was still hard to imagine going on without Mike, but it helped to be in a new house, a place not crammed with wall-to-wall memories of the ten amazing years they’d shared. True, it was just a rental. It was old-fashioned and a bit rundown, but she was here with all the things she couldn’t bear to part with. Armed with determination to reinvent her life, she’d moved and left her former home to someone else. A lot of her friends were amazed and shocked when she’d announced she was going to get rid of her home and move a couple hundred miles away to a small town she’d only passed through a few times before she selected it. Well