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TO CATCH A WOLF
By
Susan Krinard


To
CATCH A WOLF
Susan Krinard
BERKLEY SENSATION, NEW YORK




This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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TO CATCH A WOLF
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A Berkley Sensation Book / published by arrangement with the author
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PRINTING HISTORY
Berkley Sensation edition / September 2003
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Copyright й 2003 by Susan Krinard
Cover design by George Long
Cover art by Franco Accornero
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a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,
375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014.
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ISBN: 0-425-19208-3
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Prologue
Canon City, Colorado, 1875
Free.
Morgan paused just outside the gates of the Territorial Penitentiary, staring through the bars at the cold, hard faces of the men who had kept him caged for the last five years. He knew that their blank expressions hid reliefЧrelief that the one prisoner they couldn't break was leaving their jurisdiction.
They'd stopped trying to beat him after the first year, because he gave them no reason other than their dislike of his silence. They left him almost entirely alone after the second year, and so did the other convicts. Even though he never attempted escape, they kept him in his cell all but an hour each day, and let him out only under heavy guard with half a dozen rifles trained at his head.
He'd learned how to keep his sanity when the scents of wood and river came to him through the barred window. He'd learned to exist in a place where everything he had been died a slow and lingering death.
It was easier than the one his father had suffered.