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Chapters (50)
  1. Also by
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  49. EPILOGUE
  50. Teaser Chapter

She bit back the sound of fear that tried to escape her throat. She only had one chance if she wanted to live. With a deep breath for courage, Ellie made her way past the rubble and slipped deeper into the mine.

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Driving through the rain at a speed that edged as close to perilous as he dared, Kade shaved minutes off the trip to the Red Hawk Mine. Sliding off the road into the mountainside wouldn’t help Ellie.

Carver and Fischer were a few minutes behind him. He had promised to wait if he got there first. Wait for them before he went in after Ellie.

Kade wasn’t waiting. The problem was he had to find her.

He slowed as he neared the top of the hill. The mine was shut down on the weekends, the front gate locked. But the main tunnel wasn’t where Egan would take a woman.

Turning off the steep road, Kade turned down a narrow lane around the side of the mountain toward the back of the mine, where he and his brothers had played. The shafts were old there, abandoned, and long boarded up.

As a kid, they’d played cowboys and Indians there. He’d been a cowboy, of course. Gage and Edge were Arapaho warriors. He wished his brothers were with him now, wished he hadn’t let the rift between them go unmended for so long.

The big diesel slopped through the muddy, little-used road, around to the back of the mountain. Kade parked in a spot the pickup wouldn’t be heard or easily seen, got out with his flashlight, and started walking. The Colt .45 in the holster on his belt felt comforting. He was dealing with a killer. He wouldn’t hesitate to use the weapon.

As he searched for the place he and his brothers had used to sneak through the fence, the flashlight formed a yellow circle in front of him. He figured Egan must have a key to the gate leading into this area, what had been, years ago, the main ore-producing tunnels of the mine.

Continuing along the fence, he looked for the gnarled old pine that marked the spot he recalled. He’d told Carver and Fischer about the back entrance, told them to bring a bolt cutter for the lock on the gate. They were rounding up deputies and on their way to join him.

He thought of Ellie and what Egan might have done to her, and a rush of fury nearly blinded him. Kade clenched his teeth and forced the image away. He had to keep his head on straight if he was going to help her. He prayed she would stay alive long enough for him to get there.

Kade lengthened his stride and kept walking.

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