Gina Ranalli: Unearthed

Watching the enormous digger bees, she absently scratched her dog’s neck and listened to the hum of a distant chopper flying somewhere over head. The sound gave her a slight twinge of hope, but she knew better. She supposed Stacy knew better as well. She prayed for the young woman’s sake that she did.

The ground lasted a good deal longer than Rebecca had thought it would. There was time to watch the sunrise and listen to more helicopters come and go, but they never came close enough to warrant getting out and trying to signal them.

The day dawned in much the same way the previous one had: gray and gloomy and with a profound sense of loneliness that broke hearts and inspired poets. After a while, it began to rain, but they were all used to that now. It had rained for so long before this whole mess it seemed only fitting that it would end the same way. This was the Pacific Northwest after all and for Rebecca’s money, there was no place more beautiful.

The patter of rain soothed her almost as much as the weight of her dog did and she wondered vaguely if it would lull her to sleep.

And then, it did.

Gina Ranalli is the author of many books, including House of Fallen Trees, Praise the Dead and Mother Puncher . Visit her online at www.ginaranalli.com.

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Unearthed © 2011 by Gina Ranalli

Cover Artwork © 2011 by Daniele Serra

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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