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WOLF MOON
Nora Roberts
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Prologue
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Italy
Somewhere in the Piedmont Mountains

LIKE a brush tipped in twilight, the setting sun shimmered across the
valley and daubed silver-edged shadows into the forest. Those last
flaming rays wouldn’t linger, but would soon slide away to hide behind
the peaks and leave the sky a soft, purpling blue.

Simone hitched her shoulders, shifting the weight of her backpack as she
watched night creep across the wild reaches of Valgrisenche.

At least she was pretty sure that’s where she stood. She’d wandered off
the path—such as it was—hours earlier. But she didn’t care. She’d come
for the adventure, for the thrill. For the freedom.

And if she was a little lost in a remote area of the Italian mountains,
so what? She was in the Italian mountains, and that’s what counted.

In any case, she had her compass, her guidebooks, and all the necessary
supplies. Tomorrow, she’d cross over into France—France, she thought with
a quick hiking-boot boogie.

If the mood struck anyway, if she didn’t decide to linger on this side of
the border another day or two before she continued her journey. This
glorious and personal journey.

She’d camp, but not yet. The light was fading, but the sunset was so
spectacular, painting reds and golds over the western sky. She’d always
thought twilight the most magical of times. A breathless hush that should
be savored before it bled away to night.

So she’d follow the sunset for a while, fill her lungs with the sharp
tang of pine from the forest, and watch the dying sun sink onto, into,
behind the snow-covered peaks.

She’d been right to come after the summer season, right to take this one
year to indulge in everything she’d dreamed about all of her life.