Chapter 2
The moment he walked in the shop, Richard Nyberg knew he’d made a mistake. Always have an emergency book with you. His wife had told him that any number of times before she’d left him—left them—two years ago. It was the one piece of her unending streams of advice he should have listened to, but he was always forgetting.
In seconds, his Lana and Tammy Cullen had hugged and were giggling together like he supposed a pair of fifteen-year-old girls were supposed to. Tammy dragged his daughter off for a whirlwind tour of the shop.
He slowed down a minute to check out the place. The dress shop felt welcoming and successful. Part of it was the thoughtful designer who had staged the store as carefully as the colorful designs. The other part was the surprising number of customers in a r
