Chapter 10
Canada, Twenty-Eight Years Ago
The family picked their way down to the road and huddled under a copse of Douglas fir adjacent to the road. Chepi held the unconscious Sheshebens on her lap, and the boy curled into a knot on the snow next to her. Noshi used his hands and a beautiful mule skinner with a red stag handle to dig an adequate ice cave, and they all crowded in…
Northern California, Present Time
Some said a pair of ghosts haunted Mama Winter’s Bookstore and Coffee House. In spite of her own unexplained experiences, Maggie wasn’t about to buy into the idea of phantoms and spirits. When Sally complained about items mysteriously flying off shelves, spooky disembodied voices, and opening shop some mornings to find all the furniture had been rearranged during the night, Ma
