The Body in the Woods by April Henry EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:April Henry
- Language: English
- Genre:Science Fiction
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TUESDAY
BLOOD
For Alexis Frost, Nick Walker, and Ruby McClure, it all started with a
phone call and two texts. It ended with fear and courage, love and loathing,
screaming and blood. Lots of blood.
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When the classroom phone rang in American history, Alexis Frost
straightened up and blinked, trying to will herself awake as the teacher
answered it. She managed to yawn without opening her mouth, the cords
stretching tight in her neck. Last night had been another hard one.
“Alexis?” Mrs. Fairchild turned toward her.
“Yes?” Her heart sped up. What was it this time? The possibilities were
endless. None of them good.
“Could you come up here, please?”
Mrs. Fairchild was looking at Alexis as if she was seeing her in a new
light. Had it finally happened, then, the thing she both feared and longed
for? Had something happened to her mother?
* * *
Nick Walker’s thumbs were poised over the virtual keyboard of the phone
he held on his lap. He was pretending to listen to Mr. Dill, his English
teacher, while he was really texting Sasha Madigan, trying this angle and
that to persuade her to study with him tonight. Which he hoped would mean
lots of copying (on his part) and lots of kissing (on both their parts).
The phone vibrated in his hand. Mr. Dill was busy writing on the board,
so Nick lifted it a little closer to his face. It wasn’t a reply from Sasha but a
message from his Portland Search and Rescue team leader.
Search in Forest Park. Missing man. Meet time 1500.
His first SAR call-out! He jumped to his feet.
“Nick?” Mr. Dill turned and looked at him over the top of his glasses.
“What is it?” Mr. Dill had a lot of rules. He had already complained about
Nick’s habit of drawing—only Mr. Dill called it doodling—in class.
Nick held up his phone while pointing at it with his other hand as if he
had been hired to demonstrate it. “I’m with Portland Search and Rescue,
and we’ve been mobilized to find a man missing in Forest Park. I have to
leave now.”
“Um, okay,” Mr. Dill said uncertainly. Someone in Wilson High’s
administration had had to sign off on Nick being allowed to join searches
during the school day, but maybe the information hadn’t filtered down to
his teachers.
No matter. Nick was already out the door.
He just hoped someone from class would tell Sasha. A text wouldn’t do
it justice.
Nick Walker, called out on a lifesaving mission.
* * *
Ruby McClure felt her phone buzz in her jeans pocket. She waited until the
end of chemistry to check it.
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