Whisper to the Blood

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My thanks to Irene Rowan, whose wonderful and sometimes heartbreaking stories inspired the plot of this novel.

My thanks to Talia Ross, for the loan of her way-cool name.

And last but by no means least, my thanks to Pat and Cliff Lunneborg, who once said to me, "Do what you love. The money will come." I've been waiting to say that in a book ever since.

VANCOUVER, BC (AP): A Canadian-based mining firm, Global Harvest Resources Inc. (GHRI), yesterday announced the discovery of a gold, copper and molybdenum deposit on state-leased land in Alaska 's Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge. At a press conference at the company's headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, GHRI said preliminary estimates put the recoverable gold at 42 million ounces.

"That's more than seven times the total amount of gold mined during the Klondike Gold Rush," said GHRI chief executive officer Bruce O'Malley.

It's not only gold in them thar hills, according to O'Malley. "There are also 24 billion pounds of copper and 1.5 million pounds of molybdenum," a hard metal used to strengthen steel, in what GHRI has named the Suulutaq Mine. Suulutaq is the Aleut word for "gold."

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