Shadow Whispers
Like a panther, she stalked her prey through the shivery, silent night. The young Navajo woman going by the name Sunnie Begay had made herself too tough to feel the cold. Other forces made her too tough to care.
Alone but bolstered by the knowledge and expertise she had recently acquired, Sunnie crept through sagebrush and granite boulders. Too dark on this moonless night to see much, she let her memory, honed senses and imagination guide the way.
As she edged ever so surely to her date with destiny, instinct told her that at last the end was near.
Tonight she would catch the Navajo Wolf unawares. She would take her shot, ending the misery the People had for years endured at the hands of that abomination of mankind. The monster who had wreaked his last bit of suffering on Navajoland would go the way he had lived—through violence.
Hefting the rifle case that had become her only companion over the last six months, Sunnie took her spot among the rocks. On this blustery winter's evening, the last of the cottonwood leaves rattled in the frosty midnight hours.
She carefully removed her dismantled rifle from the case and admired its shin ... read full excerpt from Shadow Whispers ebook
