Catch Me if Yukon
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“Do you see that?” I pointed in the approximate direction. “A shadowy thing in the trees. It’s moving to the left.”
“Your eyes may be better than mine, bella.”
“Do you have your phone?”
He placed it in my hand. I focused on the shape and captured it in frame, then expanded the image to a magnification we could both see.
“Merda,” swore Etienne.
“What does this look like to you?”
“Merda,” he repeated.
“I can see how it might be mistaken for a tree…but trees aren’t usually ambulatory, except in Tolkien movies.”
“The press would love to see this.”
“They’d have a field day, wouldn’t they? All the time they spent hounding Dad would not have been in vain.”
“Should we alert your father?”
“Nah. His phone’s broken.”
We watched the shadow lumber to the edge of the tree line, then pause, almost as if it was staring back at us.
“So what are you going to do?” asked Etienne.
I looked from the readout screen to the woods, then back to the screen. “Only one thing to do.”
I hit the little trash icon on his phone and watched the screen fade to black.
I could hear the relief in Etienne’s voice as he whispered against the curve of my ear, “Exactly what I was hoping you’d do.”
the end
about the author
After experiencing disastrous vacations on three continents, Maddy Hunter decided to combine her love of humor, travel, and storytelling to fictionalize her misadventures. Inspired by her feisty aunt and by memories of her Irish grandmother, she created the nationally bestselling, Agatha Award–nominated Passport to Peril mystery series, where quirky seniors from Iowa get to relive everything that went wrong on Maddy’s holiday. Catch Me If Yukon is the twelfth book in the series. Maddy lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and a head full of imaginary characters who keep asking, “Are we there yet?”
Please visit her website at www.maddyhuntermysteries.com or become a follower on her MaddyHunter@AuthorMaddyHunter Facebook page.
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