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Chapter One

Seven years Later…

Three of the assailants were caught and in prison…the other still at large. Three months after the court hearings John and Marilyn were killed in a strange car accident. While traveling down the interstate a cinderblock was thrown off the bridge as they passed underneath, smashed their windshield and caused a major accident. Still under investigation, nearly seven years later, it was considered a cold case and rarely looked at…life goes on for the Marten girls.

Skeeter and Sparky moved back home to be with the twins and they could all help each other any way they could. There was enough insurance money for all four of the sisters to finish their college education with the older two also working to take care of household expenses. Maranda finished her degree at the university campus, and Mariah finished hers mostly online, taking only the required classes for her degree at the University.

After over four years of therapy and many sit-down sessions with her three sisters, Mariah was finally back into public life. She still didn’t like large social gatherings, but then she’d never liked those anyway. After getting her degree in animal biology, she worked on her Masters concentrating of the American Wolf. She needed a job that would put her out in the field so she could experience the application of her studies and get her doctorate. After looking for several months, Mariah finally found just what she was looking for and needed to finish writing her doctoral thesis, although it was 500 miles away. The job was perfect. A government job with ARM, animal relocation management, on government protected land in the tri-state area of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. The company was supplying her with a four-wheel blue SUV, had payed the lease on a cabin for a full year and it was within a 2 mile drop-range for the wolf pack she would be studying to insure the location could work with the right circumstances. The area had already been surveyed for water and food resources, as well as caves and such for living spaces for them. Other than her three sisters flipping out on he. all was perfect.