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The author takes us through his humorous childhood experience of having to eat split pea soup for lunch during school recess as a little boy. A soup that he dislikes to this day.

When I woke up, I panicked because it was the first day of school. Yep, this is the day that I start the fifth grade. “Carson!” my mom yelled. I immediately ran downstairs. Mom had made me a big breakfast. “My favorite!” I said. “Yep,” she replied. “A stack of pancakes, bacon, eggs, sausage, and a tall glass of chocolate milk.” I hugged her with the biggest hug I could come up with because she’s never able to make my favorite breakfast these days.

Rhonda Collins, the doctor who went missing in the first book of The Corpus Christi Mysteries Series Missing, is back in her hometown. Now she uses her own name, Sandra Lewis. Sandra and her sister, the real Rhonda, stir up things up in the little town of Harmon, which now has its own missing woman. She will be in for a surprise. They find one of their sisters, Rainey, who prefers to distance herself from them. Mama is in the next town, but she only remembers giving birth to her first daughter, Rhonda.

Rhonda Collins, MD, is a popular physician at a Corpus Christi family clinic. One day, she leaves on her lunch break and never returns. The media learns about the missing woman and everyone in the city is caught up in the mystery of what happened to a beautiful doctor. Pressed by the media, the head of the South Corpus Christi Police Department reluctantly appoints two detectives, veteran Sergeant Stan Belkin and newbie Maria Gonzales, to the case. The husband of Linda, Rhonda’s best friend, carries a secret. Linda wonders if she ever really knew her best friend.

From the Gulf of Mexico, a storm concealed moon and stars with black skies, resounding thunder, branched lightning, torrential rains, and high winds. At the RV Park, a haven for happy retirees who came from the northern states for the winter, the power went out.