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uring the first week of November, traffic through

town had dwindled to a thin trickle. Besides the

coming and going of the locals, there were only a

few late-season elk hunters cruising down Main Street on

their way back home, some with elk heads and large antler

racks displayed proudly on their hunting rigs (a habit a city

girl found slightly disturbing).

Maggie diverted her attention from the "trophy" tied to

the hood of a dust-covered pickup parked along Main Street

by watching her breath come out in little white puffs that lin-

gered for a moment on the crisp midday air before they dis-

appeared. The novelty of such a simple thing as frost was not

lost on her as she walked toward Galloway's Deli. It was not

something she'd seen much of in southern California.

The atmosphere had suddenly changed in Pine Mountain.

A quiet hush wrapped itself around the streets of this little

town until it seemed that even the normally energetic mer-

chants had become unusually subdued. Maggie waved

across the street to Elizabeth Rodgers as the older woman