"Yes, thank you," she replied in surprise, her eyes going toward the empty cradle.

The woman Macha, too, lying dead in her cottage beside the empty cradle with her throat cut.

As he eased onto the stool, Nylan's eyes flicked to the empty cradle.

When Miss Rosetta returned to the kitchen, her eyes fell on an empty cradle.

He felt the chill on his heart and forced himself to hold tighter, not to look at the empty cradle.

And an empty cradle rocking in a cold room upstairs.

In the wind that blew through a broken window, an empty cradle rocked slowly back and forth.

Most curious, there were empty cradles and no dead infants.

Too many women found an empty cradle, or a husband that never came home from the hunt.

In this apartment he found an empty cradle with several spots of blood on the infant's pillow.