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Authors: Todd Wynn,Tim Wynn

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DEDICATION

For Linda Wynn,

Our Mother

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Tiffany Austin, who is always the first to read our work, because she wouldn’t have it any other way. We thank her for her positive impact on the book, through her helpful comments, be they brusque or otherwise.

We would like to thank our Early Readers for their valuable input, which helped to shape the final version of the book:

James Austin

Betti Cogswell

David Foulkes

Martine Keating

Jackie Markham

Stacey Nyland

Sue Schrieber

We owe many thanks to Karl and Tiffany King for their generous guidance through the publishing process. Learn more about them at
authorTiffanyJKing.blogspot.com

Thank you to Terra Yates for her photographic expertise in making us look presentable.

Thank you to Sherwin Soy for his outstanding work on the cover.

Thank you to Donna Marton for her extraordinary skill as a proofreader. Any mistakes in this novel are merely instances where we failed to heed her advice.

Thank you to Rick Flores, for his assistance in every detail of life.

Most of all, thank you to Linda Wynn, our mother and biggest fan . . . to whom this book is dedicated.

CHARACTER LIST
LIMESTONE DEPOSIT SURVEY GROUP

Stewart Faulkner
:
Lead Agent for the Limestone Deposit Survey Group
Gregory

Web

Webster
:
Technical specialist for the Limestone Deposit Survey Group
Mindy Craddock
:
New recruit for the Limestone Deposit Survey Group, hoping to survive her first day and pass her
in-the-field
job interview
Lambert
:
Military specialist for the Limestone Deposit Survey Group; initially referred to simply as
New Guy
George Roman
:
Command Agent for the Limestone Deposit Survey Group; Stewart Faulkner’s boss

REA-UNIT 4

Dexim (DEX-um)
:
Leader of the Royal Expeditionary Armada, Unit 4

Lyntic (LEN-tik)
:
Member of the Royal Expeditionary Armada, Unit 4; sister of Dexim
Tobi (TOW-bee)
:
Technical specialist for the Royal Expeditionary Armada, Unit 4

Jin (Jen)
:
Junior member of the Royal Expeditionary Armada, Unit 4

HIRED HELP

Denokin (DEN-uh-kin)
:
Transport pilot who speaks only a few phrases of English
Grizzly
:
A bounty hunter who is occasionally hired by Stewart Faulkner to perform odd jobs for the Limestone Deposit Survey Group, mostly off the record
Michael-James
:
A bounty hunter recruited by Grizzly to be on a four-man team commissioned by Stewart Faulkner; owner of a primer-gray Camaro; wearer of cheap suits and fingerless gloves

ALIEN RESEARCH AGENCY

Karl Bruner
:
Special Agent for the Alien Research Agency

OTHER NOTABLE PLAYERS

Sarazha (suh-RA-zhuh)
Bant
:
going simply by “Sara,” a young girl with severe memory loss and no recollection of her past
Jeremy Borden
:
a local teenager with a crush on Sara

See the
GLOSSARY
in the
back of the book for more

Table of Contents

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHARACTER LIST

1

A Good Day

for a Bad Abduction

 

2

Mindy Craddock

 

3

A Large

Lingering Problem

 

4

Karl Bruner & the Alien Research Agency

5

The Ones Who Got Away

6

Jin and the Supply Bag

7

Pioneer Post

 

8

Tracking the

Weather Balloon

 

9

Lunch and Speculation

10

Water

 

11

Stone Ridge Cabin

 

12

The Device

 

13

Sara

 

14

The New Plan

 

15

All is Quiet in Juniper

16

Take Two

 

17

The Comforts of Home

 

18

The Quorets

 

19

Spend the Night

 

20

Bedtime

 

21

Sunrise

 

22

The Police Chief

 

23

Jeremy and Sara

s
First Morning

 

24

Juniper Hotel:

a Bed-and-Breakfast

 

25

The Search

for the Heartbeat

 

26

The Waiting Game

 

27

The Ambush

 

28

Bruner Kills Some Time

29

Home Again

 

30

Camp Whatever

 

31

The Meeting

 

32

Joining Forces

 

33

Visiting Camp Whatever

34

Waking Sara

 

35

Old Memories

 

36

Sara Awakes

 

37

All

s Well

GLOSSARY

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Photo by Terra Yates

 

 

 

Todd and Tim Wynn are brothers who write screenplays and novels. They have written several award-winning screenplays and are at work on their next book.

 

WynnBrothers.com

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