Saving Grace: Tough Love

  “"Praise the Lord,”" Earl said, standing aside so Gus could trot back in.

  Then the front door opened, and Grace crossed the threshold.

  Smiling.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  With deepest thanks to my editor, Kelli Fillingim, and Dennis Ambrose, king of the copy editors. My gratitude to my agent, Howard Morhaim, and his assistant, Katie Menick. Thanks to Steve Perry for gun information. All errors of fact are mine alone.

  Saving Grace: Tough Love is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’'s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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