She fled without looking back, her tears blowing backward into her hair and ears like icy kisses.
Before she entered the subway tunnel, the crack of gunfire pierced the night.
epilogue
The fragile light of dawn was beginning to bleed into the sky when Susan awoke. She rubbed her eyes and adjusted the seat upright. Outside the window lay great expanses of nothing—scrub plants, a tall, spindly silhouette of a water tower. Further in the distance, oil wells loomed like prehistoric creatures against the purple canvas of the horizon.
“Where are we?” she asked.
“Somewhere outside Austin,” Devin said without taking his eyes from road. “We’ll need to stop soon. The sun’s almost up.”
About the Author:
Donna Burgess lives with her husband, daughter, son, manycats and one goofy Golden Retriever in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. When she is not writing, she can be found on herlongboard or behind a good book. She is also the president ofNaked Snake Press. Find more of her work at:
http://donnaburgess.com
http://nakedsnakepress.net
I express to gratitude to my family for their continued support.
I would like to thank Lynn O’Dell at Red Adept editing for the wonderful job she did with this novel. She gave me confidence in my work (and helped me sound kinda cool). Check her out here:
http://redadeptreviews.com/?page_id=4286
I also want to thank Kim Killion at Hot Damn Design for the awesome cover design. See more of her work here:
http://www.hotdamndesigns.com/home.asp
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