Guy Allen

What If Someone Sees Us? collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling.This collection shows what people new to writing, given opportunity and support and guidance, can accomplish. These new authors write with economy, grace, precision, courage. Their stories pull us into spaces unfamiliar to us, and yet in the things that happen in those spaces, things we may not have known about, we recognize pieces of ourselves.

In the untamed wilderness of Northern British Columbia, survival isn't guaranteed-but something worse than nature may be watching.When Dusty Sherant, a cash-strapped contract geologist, reluctantly accepts a job exploring mining claims for shady stock promoters, he expects trouble. And trouble finds him. Leading a mismatched crew into the remote wilderness, Dusty must navigate raging forest fires, a wounded grizzly with a taste for vengeance, and tensions brewing among his team.But the deeper they venture into the shadowy mountains, the stranger things become. Unexplainable events, whispered legends of a mythical "wild man," and a mounting sense of dread threaten to tear the crew apart. When tragedy strikes and one of their own is killed, Dusty realizes this job may cost far more than his paycheck-if he even lives to collect it.Adventure, mystery, and survival collide in a haunting tale where the wilds hold more than meets the eye. 4o

Clear, Precise, Direct provides a concise set of strategies to help students improve their writing skills at the sentence level with a focus on application and revision. Students will learn the key principles of clear, effective writing and practice applying them to their own work through a series of lessons, exercises, and peer writing samples.

A surgically severed hand uncovered in a sand trap at the Sun City golf course leaves the police and local residents with many questions. Whose hand was it? Was it meant to be discovered as a warning? Only a handful of locals are aware of the danger it represents.Dusty Sherant, a Canadian geologist, has his winter vacation in the Arizona sun interrupted as his search for his mentor, Fred Prince, leads him into a world of drug smuggling, kidnapping, suspicious mining corporations and murder.The ' Arab' would go to any extreme to protect his identity and his empire. He has spent too many years planning and paying attention to detail. His string of vicious acts strikes fear in his underlings and assures him of their silence. His only slip is a failed attempt to permanently dispose of his lover.A severe beating, an attempt on his life and the murder of his friend solidifies Dusty's resolve to find the man responsible. With the assistance of a retired police officer, he follows the trail, each step taking him closer to identifying the 'Arab'.

The brutality inflicted on his fianc e was the breaking point. Dusty had expected most of the problems of winter drilling in Northern Canada with its relentless cold, but he didn't expect of being accused of the crime that shattered his world.Against his better judgment, he had contracted the geological supervision of the Amyot Project. From the first day, the operation spiraled into chaos, as it was plagued with the efforts of hostile villagers and environmentalists, rig accidents, an assistant with a hidden agenda and an attempt on his life. As the Project became financially unstable, Dusty realized that in order to clear his name, it was up to him to identify the culprit. The closer he got to exposing the attacker, the more dangerous the game became. And in the unforgiving wilderness, a single misstep could mean losing everything, including his life.

TALISMANTwo families, searching for wealth, adventure, and a new way of life are thrown together in the California goldfields of the 1850s. This is a story of their journeys to this wild frontier and their struggles for survival against bandits, animal attacks, harsh winters, natural disasters and their own personal demons. Whoever possesses the gold nugget talisman has their life influenced by the power of this mysterious stone. Tenny Woods' experience of a religious epiphany coincident with the discovery of a rich gold deposit convinces him that he is God's chosen messenger. Obsessed by a religious fever, he abandons his family to preach the Lord's word. On a return trip, a raging winter storm confines him to an abandoned cabin without food, where he gradually loses his Faith and descends into madness. His treatment of his beautiful wife, Rachel, sends her into the arms of Jonathan Sarsfield, whose untimely death sets the stage for her taking his son Josh as her lover.This is the final step in Tenny's breakdown. In an insane rage, he kills Rachel and Josh's baby. Josh's revenge for the murder of his lover and son takes his hunt for Tenny throughout the camps of the Motherlode and into the mountains to an eventual showdown.