The Cavern: Thunder Mountain

By Dean Wesley Smith

Stout used to own the Garden Lounge where the time-traveling jukebox sat. He sold the Garden to live with his love, Jenny.

Now Jenny’s cancer diagnosis gives her only five months to live.

Bonnie and Duster, the original owners of the jukebox, will not stand for that diagnosis.

A Thunder Mountain story of love and death and living?

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Apr 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524264314

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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CHAPTER ONE

RICHARD CONE SAT at the kitchen counter in the huge underground cavern below the Historical Research Institute.

Outside, the summer heat had hit close to one hundred, but the cavern was cool and comfortable.

Dawn Edwards had just fixed herself and Bonnie Kendal some soup and a ham sandwich for lunch when Richard had come wandering in. He looked like he had lost something and even though Dawn didn’t know Richard very well, she had always seen him with a smile on his face.

Not today. He looked every bit of seventy years old and he walked like an old man instead of the spry bartender who owned the Garden Lounge, a small local bar on the outskirts of Boise.

She had offered to make him some lunch and he had nodded and thanked her, than sat down at the counter.

Bonnie looked at Dawn with a raised eyebrow. Something was very, very wrong.

Around them the huge cavern was empty except for the three of them at the kitchen area counter.

The cavern was mostly a central location for all alternate time travelers, with living room furniture in various groups in front of a huge fireplace, a long kitchen counter, a giant kitchen large enough for five people to work behind the counter, and large restrooms and showers tucked off to one side.

Travelers using the Institute time travel sort of gathered in this area when not either in their apartments sleeping, doing research or writing in