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Chapter 1

• The moon has just risen and Dr. Eleanor Friedman-Bernal is wearing a backpack and hiking in the desert.

• She is keeping her destination a secret from her friends, and she has lied to them about her destination.

• She told her friends that she was driving into Farmington, New Mexico.

• Actually, she was hiking to a secret destination near Bluff, Utah.

• As Dr. Friedman-Bernal, an anthropologist, hikes, she thinks about her life as a single, professional woman and an upcoming meeting where she will reveal some of her recent discoveries to an academic colleague.

• She is excited about her present nighttime quest.

• She approaches a canyon she had helped to map and catalog the previous summer.

• One of the pictographs seems to be new, and the pictograph makes her aware of the darkness, the silence, and her total isolation.

• She pulls a .25 caliber automatic pistol from her backpack...

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