Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll

[louisev]

Okay you crazy fans.

Chapter 1 of Shelter From the Storm

http://louisev.livejournal.com/75525.html  "Chapter 1:  Break-In"

NOW I'm going home from work!

[notBastet]

Oh, have a dozen. Share some with the software development team, tell them what you do in your free time 

Those look like corn muffins to me!  My pumpkin walnuts were more brown/tan in color... and there were walnuts on top.
lol.

[neatfreak]

Locations update, in alphabetical order:

Bigheart:  Somewhere, Holland (Time zone?)
DavidinHartford:  Hartford (duh), Connecticut (EDT)
Helen:  Somewhere, UK (Time zone?)
JennyC:  San Francisco, California (PDT=EDT-3)
Louisev: Saarland, Germany (CET=EDT+6)
LoveEmBoys:  Somewhere, Colorado (MDT=EDT-2)
Lucise:  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Time zone?)
Mainewriter:  Portland, Maine (EDT)
Neatfreak:  Indianapolis, Indiana (EDT)
notBastet:  Somewhere, North Carolina (EDT)
Pastorfred:  Moscow, Idaho (PDT=EDT-3)
Quiplash:  Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Time zone?)


Now off to read!!

[notBastet]

http://louisev.livejournal.com/75525.html  "Chapter 1:  Break-In"

(**livejournal crashes as too many people across the world try to read simulataneously**)

no one fear.... I was just joking.

[MaineWriter]

Okay you crazy fans.

Chapter 1 of Shelter From the Storm

http://louisev.livejournal.com/75525.html  "Chapter 1:  Break-In"

NOW I'm going home from work!

[notBastet]

SPOILER:






Yeah! Ennis is out of the truck and away from the kidnappers!

Back to reading.. just needed a quick celebration...

[notBastet]

SPOILER:




... and apparently Louise prefers to call them abductors, not kidnappers...

[neatfreak]

Spoiler? Maybe:




Whew! Ennis and I need a nice cold lemonade after that!

[notBastet]

SPOILER:





Go Ennis, go Ennis....  nB says in her best cheerleader interpretation.

Ellery is going to pass out from relief.  Oh wait, that's something I would do, not Ellery.

And who knows, Nellie may have a prominent role just yet... 

[MaineWriter]

As a way to calm down from this excitement, we will have a brief legal lesson. Everyone, pay attention!

Kidnapping, a word derived from kid = 'child' and nap(nab) = 'snatch', recorded since 1673, originally meant stealing children for use as servants or laborers in the American colonies. It has come to mean any illegal capture or detention of persons against their will, regardless of age, as for ransom; since 1768 the term abduction was also used in this sense.

In the terminology of the common law in many jurisdictions (according to Black's Law Dictionary), the crime of kidnapping is labelled abduction when the victim is a woman, but men can be abducted, too.

Leslie