Chapter 8
After Quinn left, Lacey threw on her running clothes, jumped in her car and drove to her favorite beach for a long run. Though she loved summers in Alaska, she loved it even more when the weather turned chilly and left miles and miles of empty beaches. After walking down a short path through drooping tall grasses, faded and well past their time, she stepped onto the beach. This particular stretch of coastline wasn’t formally named, but she’d called it Raven’s Beach since she was a little girl. She and Marley had come down here for a walk with their mother once and found a group of ravens frolicking in the air by a nearby bluff. She’d never seen as many ravens as they saw that day, but she always saw a few here. They nested in the cluster of spruce trees atop the bluff.
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