Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
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Authors: Mindy Starns Clark
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MINDY STARNS
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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.
DON’T TAKE ANY WOODEN NICKELS
Copyright © 2003 by Mindy Starns Clark
Published 2011 by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-2957-8
The Library of Congress has cataloged the edition as follows:
Clark, Mindy Starns.
Don’t take any wooden nickels / Mindy Starns Clark.
p. cm. — (The million dollar mysteries; 2)
ISBN 978-0-7369-0993-8 (pbk.)
1. Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)—Fiction. 2. Women philanthropists—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3603.L366 D66 2003
813'.54—dc21
2002010021
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For my daughter Emily…Thank you for being exactly who you are: sweet, talented, funny, giving, beautiful, and filled with a godly spirit that thrills my heart. I love you!
Contents
Acknowledgments
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Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
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Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
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Twenty-One
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Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
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Thirty-Five
Thirty-Six
Thirty-Seven
Thirty-Eight
Thirty-Nine
Forty
Forty-One
Forty-Two
Forty-Three
Forty-Four
Forty-Five
Forty-Six
Forty-Seven
Forty-Eight
Forty-Nine
Fifty
About the Author
Many, many special thanks:
To my husband, John Clark, J.D., C.P.A., for your invaluable assistance with legal and financial questions, for incredible writing and editing help, and for all of the things you do that free me to close the door to the office and simply write. As always, without you, this book would not exist!
To Kay Justus, for more than twenty years of friendship and encouragement, countless plotting ideas and suggestions, and never-ending enthusiasm.
To my editor, Kim Moore of Harvest House Publishers, for making the entire editing and publishing process such a joy.
To Ken Weber, for designing my website, and to Shari Weber, for your wonderful research assistance.
To my father, Robert M. Starns, M.D., for brilliant medical information.
To readers Jackie Starns, Sheila Davison, Mary Davison, Theresa Verna, and Kim Furando.
To all of those who filled in the gaps of my knowledge: Hitomi Kimura, Ikuko Nagano, David and Jennifer Clark, Ann and Don Blais, David Starns, Lauren Clark, Jonathan King, Sue and Bob Butler, David Granquist, Sgt. Bruce R. Talbot, Public Affairs Officer Niki Edwards, and so many others I could fill this book with your names. Thank you!
To my fellow authors Debra White Smith, Patricia Sprinkle, and Elena Santangelo, for advice and support.
To Jim and June Ann Murphy, for your hospitality and assistance in the crucial eleventh hour.
To my COS Bible Study group, for biblical wisdom, fellowship, and fervent prayers when my deadlines are looming.
God bless you all!
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth…But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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