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Whispering Mountain #6
Berkley
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Featuring: Duncan McMurray; Rose McMurray
320 pages
ISBN: 0425250377
EAN: 9780425250372
Kindle: B0074VTH7U
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Prologue
Texas, 1876
As the train pulled away from Anderson Glen Station and
headed toward Fort Worth, Rose McMurray folded her gloved
hands in her lap and tried to remain perfectly still. She
knew she looked the part of a proper young woman all
starched and pressed from her navy traveling suit to her
polished boots. No one saw inside her where fears
threatened to choke even the shallow breaths she took.
I could do this. I could leave Whispering Mountain Ranch.
I could go alone.
Cold January rain tapped on the coach windows drawing her
attention, demanding she look out into the moonless night.
No lights beyond offered one last memory of all she knew
and loved. The wheels of the train picked up speed,
whispering ‘beware' in rapid heartbeats.
Smoke rolled passed her just beyond the glass, pulling a
memory with the same sounds and smells of a nightmare that
had haunted her since she'd left Chicago with her mother
almost twenty years ago.
Rose couldn't remember why her mother had packed her and
her two sisters up and run for the train that cold night,
but even at five years old she'd known they were running
for their lives. Something frightening followed them.
Something far worse than the unknown they rushed toward.
"Emily, hold Rose's hand," their mother had ordered as she
carried the baby on her back and a carpet bag atop a small
trunk in her arms. "Hold tight, girls, until we're on the
train. Then we'll be safe. We'll be away."
They moved into a river of people at the station.
Everyone seemed to be yelling, running, pushing.
Smoke billowed across the platform as Rose saw her mother
step onto the train and vanish. She heard Emily scream.
Someone shoved them, scattering them as if the girls were
no more than dust mites whirling in the frozen air.
Then her big sister let go of her hand and Rose was alone.
In one horrifying moment something had shattered inside
her, forever scarring across her heart like a razor sharp
blade. She screamed and screamed until she felt like her
ears were bleeding.
Even when she was safe back in her mother's arms, Rose
couldn't be comforted. Fear still rocked her thin body.
Now, twenty years later, the memory returned full force
like a north wind that had just been waiting around the
corner....waiting for a chance to catch her alone once
more...waiting to frighten her to death.
She'd told herself she was an adult. She could travel
through the night to help a friend in need. Only as her
home and all those she loved grew farther and farther away,
Rose wasn't sure.
What if she lost control of her world again and this time
when fear claimed her, it wouldn't let go? Would the
terror of the night kill her, or was there something more
in the darkness waiting to do the job? Waiting unseen to
cross out of her dreams.
She sat stone still, her hands clasped tightly in her lap,
and counted the seconds until dawn.
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