Silverskin by Caitee Cooper EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Caitee Cooper
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Ellie’s book lay untouched on the seat beside her. She’d intended to
finish it during the forty-five-minute ferry ride across the bay, but
Alaska had other plans.
She gawked out the boat’s window, in awe of the savage beauty and
sheer wildness of the place. The Kenai Peninsula was so … green. She’d
imagined a landscape more like her home in the Rocky Mountains, not this
twisting snarl of undergrowth, laden with berries; a cold, harsh northern
land that was shockingly fat with life. This wilderness had a raw
intimidation factor she’d never experienced anywhere else. In Colorado, the
Rockies didn’t care if you lived or died. In Alaska, the mountains seemed to
judge a person.
And, she thought with a shiver, she didn’t want to find out what
happened to those they found unworthy.
Snap out of it, Ellie, she thought as the hum of the ferry ratcheted down a
notch. She felt as much as heard the pitch of its huge motor change as it
drifted toward the dock. You’re here to reconnect with the person you used
to be. The cool girl who did cool stuff. Remember her?
Of course she did. She’d been the girl who wasn’t afraid of anything,
who was tough enough to keep up with Sam and his friends even though
they were two years older, whose love of adventure couldn’t be dampened
even by freak mountain rainstorms that soaked her to the bone and left her
shivering.
But freak accidents that upend your whole world in an instant? Those
change people.
She shook the bitter thought away as her dad poked his head around the
corner, where he’d been standing with Sam, chatting with one of the ferry
workers. She cracked a tiny smile. Those two were peas in a pod. Both
great conversationalists, both interested in the lives of the people around
them, and both as genuine and good as the day was long.
Her dad nodded toward her book. “I see you didn’t finish that.”
“I … nope. I sure didn’t.”
“I didn’t think you would.” A wide grin split his face, crinkling the
corners of his gray eyes, the same color as her own.
Sam’s voice issued from around the corner. “You should’ve bet her
something on it!”
Their dad laughed as he stooped and picked up his hard-sided rifle case.
“As if any of us are going to have time in the next week to settle bets.”
Ellie stood, stretching. “I guess you could have bet me a fresh moose
steak.” She stuffed her book into her backpack and swung it over her
shoulder, then grabbed the handle of her suitcase and tugged it after her
father.
“The problem with that is, if you’d lost, then you’d have to provide the
moose steak,” her dad said over his shoulder. “And if I’d lost, well, it’s not
really much of a punishment for me, is it? Given that tracking down
Henry’s legendary world-class bull is the whole reason we’re up here. Huh.
In hindsight, it seems like a bet I should have made.”
“You are such a lawyer,” Ellie said. “Also, I’d never be able to pull the
trigger, and you know it.”
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