Kimberly Walker parked her pickup on the wind-blown debris laden desert street and surveyed the worn buildings lining the road through a once prosperous town. The weathered, store fronts were empty and any lower level windows were long ago broken or boarded up. Several of the brick and the wood buildings had weathered the neglect to remain in decent shape and some were two stories tall. One, she suspected, had been a bordello rather than a hotel.
The handsome building survived as a business for the surrounding area long after the mining town faded away. This had been one of the last of the gold mining towns and people still lived here when the electrical lines went through. Everything would need to be rewired, but she could be connected to the grid or go solar. The architect"s plans for h
