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Chapter One

When Ginger Paulson’s horoscope hinted she’d take an unexpected trip, she hadn’t anticipated tripping down a flight of stairs

The wool scarfhappened in slowwith the ground in a bone-jarring thump Her left shin smacked into the cement step Heat bloo collapsed; her knee went one direction, her ankle the other Burning pain shot through her as the cartilage in her right shoulder popped Screaony wasn’t an option—the is

Can’t breathe, can’t breathe, oh God, I’

Dots swaray, then nothing

No sight No sound No feeling

Was she dead?

Immediately her pain receptors cafuls of air

Oh shit Oh holy mother of God every inch of her body hurt

Tier lay at the bottom of the stairs in pain, stunned She needed help

Yeah, good luck with that one You never ask for help

This time, she had no choice

As Ginger tried to roll to her right side, using her left hand to push herself upright, she lost her balance The heel of her left pal off her skin, clear down to the bone—or so it felt as a new stinging sensation assaulted her

Godda, her body throbbed She wanted to curl into a ball and weep

Think Crying won’t solve the problem Call for help

Call Right If she could just reach her cell phone… Not an easy task, considering her right arm was useless Despite the bloodied skin on her left pal fro the cell phone froht jacket pocket

Breathing hard, hurting, er used her thumb to dial 911

“Nine-one-one What’s your eency?”

“Help et up”

Ginger ed to relay the basic infor hysterically about the “I’ve fallen” line until after she’d hung up She laughed and laughed until her stomach muscles hurt

Huh Maybe she had hit her head harder than she’d thought

Sundance, Wyo wasn’t exactly aThe bitterly cold hipped snow crystals around her Since she couldn’tat the bleak winter sky

The tears she’d been holding in finally poured out and froze to her cheeks

Chapter Two

Kane “Buck” McKay had just pulled the plastic sheeting frory-Man Salisbury steak dinner when his cell phone rang

“Sonuvabitch” Fingers s from the steam burn, he flipped his phone open with a curt