Will You Still Be Mine?
Chapter One
Tillison County, Oklahoma-1938
"Bury me not on the lone prair ... ie
where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free.
In a narrow grave-just six by three,
Oh, bury me not-"
Kathleen stopped singing abruptly when she rounded a bend in the
lonely stretch of Oklahoma highway and saw a dilapidated old car
sitting crossways in the road. Her hands gripped the wheel of her
old Nash as her feet hit the clutch and the brake at the same time.
"Oh Lord! Hijackers!"
She had read about them, had even written about them while working
for a year at a small paper in Liberal, Kansas. Now a hijacking was
happening to her! She put the car in reverse and started backing up.
Out of the brush beside the road a man sprang up and ran toward the
car. Afraid to look away from him and watch where she was going, she
began to zigzag. Then, to her horror, the back wheels of the car
sank into the ditch beside the road. Quickly shifting gear into
drive, she gunned the motor in an attempt to go forward. The wheels
spun, digging deeper into the sandy soil.
The door beside her was flung ... read full excerpt from: Will You Still Be Mine? ebook
