Longarm And The Cry Of The Wolf (9781101619506) (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
She wrinkled the skin above her fine, long, alabaster nose and cast her frosty, blue-eyed gaze toward an open window at the other end of the little log schoolhouse that sat in the woods near the village of Little Bucharest, in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado Territory. The young schoolteacher had heard something. It had sounded like a dog’s growl. Very low. Menacing. It had seemed to emanate from just beyond the window that Katarina had opened to allow in a little air when she’d inadvertently over-stoked the woodstove. The school day was over, but she’d decided to spend an extra hour at her desk, catching up on her grading before heading back to the village and the house she shared with her parents. The growl had sounded so menacing, in fact, that Katarina felt a twinge of uneasiness between her slender shoulders. She set her pencil down near the composition she’d been grading, slid her chair back, wincing at the grate of the legs against the scarred puncheons, and rose.
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