The Rescue

By Robin Brande

A Robin Brande Single.

 

Nick Falls and his dog Bruna live alone in a high mountain cabin, where Nick has been the caretaker for a remote science laboratory for the past fifty years.

 

Nick and Bruna have a connection with this wilderness that defies both science and logic. But Nick knows it is real.

 

So when Bruna alerts Nick that something is wrong, he believes her.

 

Now the two of them must race across the snow-buried mountains to try to save the victims of a coming disaster. But time is running out. Will Nick's and Bruna's secret knowledge of this land be enough to save them?

 

[This story also appears in the collection THE LOVE OF A GOOD DOG: Stories for Dog Lovers.]

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ryer Publishing
• Release date: Oct 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201041922

Robin Brande

Award-winning author Robin Brande is a former trial attorney, entrepreneur, martial artist, law instructor, yoga teacher, wilderness adventurer, and certified wilderness medic. Her novels have been named Best Fiction for Young Adults by the American Library Association. She was selected as the Judy Goddard/Libraries Ltd. Arizona Young Adult Author of the Year in 2013. She writes fantasy, science fiction, contemporary young adult fiction, and romance.   

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The Rescue

THE RESCUE

ROBIN BRANDE

RYER PUBLISHING

The Rescue

By Robin Brande

Published by Ryer Publishing

www.ryerpublishing.com

Copyright 2021 by Robin Brande

www.robinbrande.com

Cover art by Surapoj Creative/Deposit Photos

All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

About the Author

Also by Robin Brande

1

Nick opened the latch at the front of his wood-burning stove and added more tinder to the firebox. He had already shoveled out the ashes from overnight and laid a new fire first thing, so the cabin was plenty warm, but the coffee wouldn’t boil unless the fire was raging hot, so he kept nursing the flames and feeding them more.

The wind had been howling since he first woke up and shaking the walls of his one-room cabin. He wasn’t worried. Miners had lived here before he had, and the place was still as solid as it ever was. Snow had been steadily falling for at least the last half hour, soft and puffy flakes at first, wetter and heavier now.

Avalanche snow. Not the kind of light snow he’d been seeing the past week. Sunny days, freezing nights, thaw-freeze-thaw—put a heavy new layer on top of a weak base like that, and a slab