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Late one December night, a massive earthquake shatters an isolated farmhouse in the mountains of Southern Oregon. Trapped inside, pampered housewife, Georgia Kaminski and her mortally injured husband stress over their only daughter, Callie, a freshman in college at the other end of the state. Thirteen hours of terrifying aftershocks pass without rescue. Desperate, with slivers of lumber and glass tearing at her flesh, Georgia crawls out of the wreckage. Shoeless, in a hard rain, she scrambles down the hill to beg help from her only neighbor, petty thief Turk, whose house is destroyed. Turk has no use for his wealthy neighbors, but in self-interest agrees to help get her husband out of the wreckage, then her SUV from under the collapsed garage so they can make it to civilization. The truce lasts until the next night when his two outlaw buddies show up and want to rob her, "knock her in the head" and take her vehicle. The men make a serious mistake in underestimating Georgia. She's armed and she doesn't hesitate to shoot. Meanwhile, communications are down and Callie is frantic to get to Mamma and Poppie. A hundred miles from home, she abandons her mysteriously disabled car, then acc

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Author

Shirley Linkhart

Publisher

BookBaby : Made available through hoopla

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781618421548

Category

work of fiction