title: Finding Autumn: A Falling for Autumn Novella
author:  Heather Topham Wood 
description: Heather Topham Wood's obsession with novels began in childhood while growing up in a shore town in New Jersey. Writing since her teens, she recently returned to penning novels after a successful career as a freelance writer. She's the author of the paranormal romance Second Sight series and the standalone The Disappearing Girl.  Heather graduated from the College of New Jersey in 2005 and holds a bachelor's degree in English. Her freelance work has appeared in publications such as USA Today, Livestrong.com, Outlook by the Bay and Step in Style magazine. She resides in Trenton, New Jersey with her husband and two sons. Besides writing, Heather is a pop culture fanatic and has an obsession with supernatural novels and TV shows.
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  _**WALKING** _
  
    
  
  _**INTO** _
  
    
  
  _**MURDER** _
  
    
  
  **Book One in the Laura Morland**
  
    
  
  
  **Mystery Series**
  
    
  
  
  **BY**
  
  **JOAN DAHR LAMBERT ©**
  
    
  
    
  
  
  _**CHAPTER ONE** _
  
    
  
  
  Laura regarded the wooden stile with dismay. The Cotswold Hills of England
  were littered with stiles – as well as the fences they helped people to cross
  - but she had never come across one as dilapidated as this. The bottom step
  was rotted away; the top one tilted precariously and was almost chest high.
  She would have to be a gymnast to get her foot up there.
  
  The first stile she had come across on this long-distance walk had charmed
  her, she remembered grumpily. _Filled with the romance of history_ , she had
  told herself as she imagined the generations of farmers and walkers who had
  trod its weathered boards. Then, however, the step had been lower, the weather
  perfect, and she had been full of energy. Now she was bone-tired, a dense fog
  with pelting rain had rolled in, and the temperature had dr