Chapter 1 A storm was coming, the rising wind a harbinger of the tempest. Nell reached down to grab at the stray sheet of newspaper as it scuttled in front of her. The light newsprint and the gusty wind conspired against her, but no one else was around to watch her awkward lunge. Spring was here with a vengeance, no lambs only lions, this brooding storm one of several in the past few weeks. She finally nabbed it when the eddying wind blew it back against her calf. Newspaper i