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COLD SANCTUARY
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Table of ContentsPrologueChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3
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PROLOGUEAlaska
Alaska
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Still, it would have been nice to have another soul to talk to. The rest of the construction crew wai...
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“If the weather gets much worse we’ll have to turn back,” said the burly skipper, who had identified ...
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He removed his spectacles and pulled a napkin from his pocket, wiping the lenses to remove the thin s...
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“No. Not at all.” Decker’s gaze drifted back to the window, his eyes settling on a café that a...
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“Okay.” Dominic was distracted. He pushed the radio into his pocket, still thinking about the long de...
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He crossed the room and pulled the door open, expecting to find Hayley there, but it wasn’t the town ...
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Adam stepped back, his body merging with the shadows in the dimly lit corridor. It wouldn’t be a big ...
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“So what’s it like, Alaska?” Nancy changed tack, steering the conversation away from the events of th...
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“Next time, you can go down to the basement.”
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“What cat?” Artie said. “What in hell are you talking about?”
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When he was done he took one last tour around the place to make sure everything was just as he’d foun...
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“I see.” Decker scratched his chin. “Is it possible that your maintenance man just wandered off and g...
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Besides, he had the germ of a theory about how the killer could have gotten in and out of the basemen...
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Dominic turned from the folder and strolled across the corridor to what was once the communal shower ...
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Ancient Mayan Beliefs and Rituals
“Yeah.” Mina glanced toward the books. “I like to read.”
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“We can still get in there,” Nina said. “We can just bust the lock off. It shouldn’t take too much. I...
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Was there someone in the apartment when she got home, someone who was looking through her stuff? Were...
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Decker nodded. “So what happened?”
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“What about night sights?” Decker asked. He hoped he wouldn’t need the gun, but if he did he wanted t...
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He reached the barroom door and pulled it open, happy to find that the temperature inside the bar was...
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It was colder than Decker expected out in the open. He pulled his coat tight and followed Mina across...
“And you used to play in here as a kid?” Decker wondered what kind of life it must be in this out of ...
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He took his cell phone out and searched the contacts, found the number he wanted, and dialed. A momen...
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There was a strap resting against the flashlight. He probed further, his fingers tracing the strap ba...
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He came to a halt and peered over the edge of the dock, expecting to see an otter there, but instead,...
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“I think I might add resisting arrest to the charges.”
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He felt himself being dragged backwards, back down into the store, as the creature tried to reel him ...
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He let himself in, tucked the key back into his pocket, and checked his email. Satisfied that there w...
ord Bronco, tucked into a space between the dumpsters and a weathered fence that hid several racks of...
Wilder reached for his cell phone and found the number for the store. It was unlike Verne not to open...
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Wilder swore.
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“A little,” Decker admitted. “It’s going to be difficult to retrieve it without Wilder knowing. He ca...
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At two-thirty that afternoon Decker was back in his accommodations, feeling more than a little useles...
“We’ll find a way.”
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He stepped away from the body, careful to avoid contaminating the scene, and pushed past two young st...
“Just until this thing is settled?”
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Her legs had gone to sleep, and she gritted her teeth against the strange sensation of pins and needl...
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The creature was still in pursuit, and it was fast. She risked a glance over her shoulder and was sho...
That was all that Mina needed.
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“That won’t be possible,” Decker said.
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“What does this mean?” Mina asked. “Why the same time every day?”
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“Go on.”
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His instincts were correct. Something had happened to his colleagues. This did not surprise him. The ...
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Mina sat on the worn sofa in her living room, eyes closed, her hands pressed into her lap. The gentle...
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“There isn’t.” She watched him cross to the door and stick his head in, suddenly remembering the bag ...
She heard Decker reply...
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They reached the base of the tower. Decker expected their captor to order him to open the main doors,...
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“Twelve bucks even.” Chloe’s eyes fell to his plate of food. “You’ve hardly touched your shrimp.”
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He tried not to think about his earlier conversation with Hunt, or about Hunt’s strange reaction when...
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“Don’t tell him anything.” Mina struggled against her captor, a look of terror on her face.
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Today he had needed the night vision goggles.
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Mina walked beside them, the gun cradled in her hands.
“I don’t even want to know.” Dominic turned away.
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“Hurry it up. We don’t have all day.” Hunt sounded annoyed.
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“If we don’t, it will keep picking people off one by one,” Decker said.
“Sorry, I’m in charge, and I say the girl goes.”
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She slipped the backpack from her shoulders and rested the tape player on the reception desk, the sam...
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She locked eyes with the beast, and when it looked back at her she saw a moment of confusion on its f...
It must have barreled through the doors with such force that it slammed them back against the buildin...
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“It came this way,” Hunt said, speaking for the first time since they had left the medical bay. “We’r...
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Mina sat perched on the examination couch, her attention focused on the door. Decker and Hunt had bee...
Mina’s head hit the floor and she cried out as pain shot through her body. She pushed the couch away ...
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Decker opened his eyes, blinked, and looked up at Mina. She knelt over him, tears streaking her face....
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“You mean it?” Mina’s eyes widened. “I can come visit you?”
“I think I’ll decline.”
“That is why you are going to ensure she doesn’t know the help came from you. Her mother died a few y...
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