Blood Trail Page 8

  We all sat looking at the river like we’d never seen running water before. Sunlight on the ripples. Tadpoles. A butterfly the color of Aaron’s hair landed on the moist gravel at the edge and posed there a second, fanning its wings, before it lifted off again. The way it flew, it was like swimming in the sunlight.

  “Pretty,” Jamy said.

  I let out some sort of grunt or snort or something. Mom looked at me. “What was that about?”

  I couldn’t have explained in a million years. I just stood up. “Come on. I’m hungry.”

  Time to go home.

  About the Author

  Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone with novels for adults, young adults, and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magic realism, horror, and mystery—although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan and Nora), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and bird-watching. In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida Panhandle where the bird-watching is spectacular, and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2003 by Nancy Springer

  Cover design by Drew Padrutt

  ISBN: 978-1-4976-8871-1

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