Stefan owned the lumber mill where Todd sometimes worked, and Millie was his grandmother. Their family also owned and operated a large general store and was among the first people they had befriended when they arrived in Elk’s Ridge. For a time, Nick had been the town’s only doctor. Now there were two more. They’d arrived with the first few waves of refugees and set up a clinic, something Elk’s Ridge had never had before. The previous doctor and Nick’s teacher, Phillip Porter, had run his practice from what was now Todd and Nick’s home.
Larry’s message was a simple one. The record book John Ruger had been assigned to search for, he’d found. He, along with Jimmy Cantor and Larry Witze, had been caught by the West Caldera militia, and the three of them had taken up refuge in the prison outs
