Rescued By The Marine. Julie Miller

face. Damn Marty for getting him involved with this. But he couldn’t walk away. He couldn’t live with another Elaine Burkhart on his conscience.

      “I’ll do it.”

      His nostrils flared with a deep breath as he summoned the years of training in both the military and search and rescue that lived inside him. Those skills triggered the muscle memory and do-or-die mind-set that turned him into a man he didn’t want to be anymore. But he had to become that man to do this job, to salvage his conscience, to save an heiress with pretty green eyes so he’d be able to sleep at night. “I need to know everything about your daughter’s abduction, and an explanation for those clues she was feeding us on that video.” Jason felt a clock ticking now. Whatever needed to be done would have to happen within the next few hours, before the 8:00 a.m. deadline. “Did you take Samantha hunting? Stay at a cabin with an outhouse?”

      “She didn’t have the right shoes on that trip.” With Jason’s urging, Eddington processed the information from the video. “When she was twelve, I took her up past Marion Lake and showed her how to use a gun. She didn’t want to aim at any of the birds we were after, but she’d shoot at a paper target. She liked the mechanics of the weapon. My girl always did like to tinker with gadgets and fix things. Sammie spent more time taking her rifle apart and cleaning it than she did with any actual hunting. I’d rented a cabin for the weekend. She was tucked in and asleep by the fire before I realized she’d worn her tennis shoes instead of the boots I’d got her. Her feet were soaked and her toes like ice before I got her warmed up.”

      “Where was that cabin?”

      “On the trail going up to Teton Canyon.” Walter shook his head. “That place was torn down six years ago. They can’t be holding her there.”

      “But if she’s familiar with that area, that could be the connection she was making.” The national park alone covered 485 square miles. It was imperative that they narrow down the search area if there was any chance of rescuing Samantha before the kidnappers called again. “There are supply cabins and a handful of rental properties all along that trail. The kidnappers could be holed up in any one of those.”