Jodi

If you can’t stand the dust, get out of the country!

That is, in essence, what we rural dwellers are told when we complain about the offending powder that envelopes our houses, coats our window screens and rose bushes, and chokes out Aunt Sally’s BBQ birthday party. We’re labeled whiners and spoiled urbanites who didn’t count the cost of chip and seal.

It’s true it never occurred to us that we’d have to have a budget category for Dust Abatement due to constantly replacing air filters and vacuum bags, and paying our kids to dust the furniture every other day.

Darin Nilsson rappelled down the wall in the rock-climbing gym as Fleur was climbing up to his left. It wasn’t a bad view. Although he’d say that Fleur Dupont didn’t really have any bad views. And he should know; he’d been watching her since his mid-teens.

From Time Agents: Complications

It probably wasn’t wise to eat anything right before getting onto a roller coaster, but he’d be damned if he’d throw away delicious pie. He continued to eat it as they moved forward, and Lynisa quizzed him about jumping with real lightning.

Tiffany Morrow

College student

Rescued trafficking victim, although she escapes her rescuers

Dealing with trauma, paranoia, and other issues

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Tiffany closed her eyes against the onslaught of thoughts swirling like a tornado in her brain as her hands slid over a strand of hair. The feel of it grounded her, even though she recognized that the gesture she couldn’t seem to stop meant she wasn’t as well as she was before.

Steve Elway

TA in computer science at the University of Denver

Tiffany Morrow’s tutor before her kidnapping

She now wants him to help her prove that someone is embezzling money from her family’s corporation

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A slap on Steve's shoulder had him turning to find Prof. Thomson, a professor in the computer department. "What's this? Steve Elway is actually dressed for the weather?"

Dani Harper

On vacation in Brazil

When her friend goes missing, she crosses paths with Will Yarnel, Private I, and does some undercover work with him to find a missing college student from the States—Tiffany Morrow.

Will enters her life at a time when her fiancé is behaving badly.

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