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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html BITING IN PLAIN SIGHT Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html MaryJanice Davidson Prologue THE town knew Sophie Tourneau was a creature of the night, but they were careful not to ask too many questions. Even the town gossips, who would rather speculate than eat, were careful to restrain themselves. Embarrass,Minnesota , knew several things and, most important, knew there were some things best left unsaid. The town knew, forexample, that Sophie Tourneau (called Dr. Sophie by everyone since time out of mind) had come to live among them sometime in the middle of the last century. Some of the old-timers were sure she had come in the spring of 1965; others swore up and down that she hadnt shown her pretty face until 1967. They knew she lived in a houseboat down onBabbittLake , puttering to various islands on her days off, and her houseboat,The Hymenoptera , whatever the heck that meant, was often tied up on one of Babbitts many sand beaches. They knew she carried a cell phone and would instantly return to land to tend to her work if called. They knew she was short, about five feet, two inches tall, and sweetly rounded in all the right places. They knew her hair was as black as blacktop and as straight as the path to hell, and that her eyes were a soft, velvety brown. They knew she was pale, and never had a tan, or evena sunburn , not even on the hottest nights. She didnt get sweaty on the hottest nights, either. And they knew, argue about her year of coming until they were blue, that she had been among them f