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Bone House plot revealed

What an ending.  Okay, to jog the memory months from now.

Gary Jansen, a dance teacher, has fallen under the spell of Katie, a reporter.  But Katie isn't really Katie.  She is really Jen Bone, the one child of Harris Bone who survives the fire.

Gary falls for Katie and kills! his wife to be with her.  (Shoves her over a cliff.)

Katie and Gary are in Florida for the dance show . . . Glory sees Katie, recognizes her as Jen Bone.  this also jogs Glory's memory. She now recalls that it was Katie/Jen who started the fire that killed the Bone family, not Harris.

Katie glimpses this, follows her onto the beach, and after maybe okay guy Mark leaves Glory, Katie kills her.

Meanwhile . . .  Mark is by himself at a cabin.  Glory's old boyfriend (Troy) takes a boat over to kill him.  Tresa, Glory's sister who "loves" Mark, goes to warn him.

Meanwhile . . . Father of Mrs. Bone--can't recall his name--is murdered.  The murderer is Sheriff Reich. Lo and behold, Reich and Dad killed Harris Bone years ago and faked Bone's "escape" to cover their murder.  Dad is getting remorseful, so Reich kills him and then goes to kill Mark as well.

Cab, our Florida detective, figures all this out, shows up in time to reveal the various things.  Mark isn't killed; Sheriff Reich commits suicide.

But what about Hilary?  She's trapped in Gary Jensen's house with Amy the dancer. They discover that Katie is Jen and that she wants to kill them, too, and go to Canada with Gary. Gary gets cold feet so Katie shoots him in the head.  Katie then wants to burn up Hilary and Amy but they fight free so she just burns herself up.  Cab goes back to Florida where he meets up with Lala, a detective whom he has a yen for.  Cab might open his closed heart . . . another book coming.

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