A Better Place

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Though only twelve years old and without a day A NOVEL</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>spent in a classroom June is just as comfortable</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>reading and thinking deeply as she is hunting</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>game and chopping wood. Thanks to her rustic</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>but joyful life in the Blue Mountains of Washington</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>State June is growing into a young woman who</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>combines the best traits of her scholarly mother</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>and her practical father.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>But when welfare workers and government</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>officials threaten to take June away from her</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>parents her idyllic childhood is thrown into</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>dangerous turmoil. To defend their way of life</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>June and her father must run. They escape into</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>the mountains on horseback with nothing to</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>protect them but her agile mind and survivalist</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>skills. Will everything June's parents taught her</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>be enough to outrun the danger? Or will she be</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>taken away from the only home and family she's</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>ever known?</span></p><p></p>