T he person on the horse was not Brad, it was a woman Nell and Harv didn't 
know. She had straight reddish-blond hair, pale skin with thousands of 
freckles, and carrot-colored eyebrows and eyelashes that were almost invisible 
except when the sun grazed her face. "I'm a friend of Brad's," she said. 
"He's at work. Does he know you?"