title: Read and Buried (Ashton Corners Book Club)
author:  Erika Chase 
description: <b>Praise for the AstonCorners BookClub Mysteries</b><br /><br />"Southern charm, excellent reading suggestions, and an engaging amateur sleuth."--Miranda James, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries<br /><br />"Books, cats, and a tenderhearted sleuth, a perfect combination!"--Krista Davis, national bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries<br /><br />"A terrific debut!"--MaryJane Maffini<br /><br />"Readers should have high hopes for this series."--Avery Aames
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  Rock and a Hard Place
  
  Published by:
  
  Angie Stanton at Smashwords
  
  Copyright 2011 Angie Stanton
  
  Cover by:
  
  Mary Kay Adams-Edgette
  
  All characters in this book are fiction and figments of the author’s
  imagination.
  
  http:www.angiestanton.com
  
  This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be
  re-sold or given away to other people. Thank you for respecting the hard work
  of this author.
  
  ~ ~ ~
  
  To my brother Pat, thanks for the memories.
  
  This one’s for you!
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Libby watched the cars zip by on the highway, longing for her dad’s SUV with
  out-of-state plates to take the exit and put her life back together. From her
  spot under an ancient oak she spied a red minivan exit the interstate and turn
  the opposite direction.
  
  She tried to refocus on the sketch pad in her lap and the wild flowers she’d
  stuffed in a soda can, but instead traced the scars on her palm with the tip
  of her drawing pencil. If only she could wash the marks aw