First Watch: An exclusive prequel to The Gift of Darkness (Alice Madison)
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She started toward the water’s edge with a gentle jog and after a couple of minutes she put some speed into it and really dug into the ground. In a while the world would just be the water lapping and her feet hitting the sand.
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In the near-complete darkness of the Hoh River trail, a three-hour drive from Seattle, a man races through the woods. He’s a blur through the trees. It is the thirty-seventh time he has run that stretch, the twentieth in darkness. Fast enough to keep him alive for the time he will need, slow enough for his ultimate purpose. He reaches the bottom of the bank and checks his watch. Twenty-three minutes. He lifts his face to the open sky, shivering in the sudden breeze, and his colorless eyes find a smattering of stars. How long does it take to be good?
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