THE LAST LIGHT OF SILVER CANYON

Chapter One: The Map Without a Road The final map lay open between four mugs of hot chocolate at Eli Carter’s kitchen table. Every other clue had shown a place: schoolhouse, pump house, chapel, memorial wall. This one showed only the outline of Silver Canyon and a glowing circle beneath the main mine. Across the top, Samuel Bell had written: The last light waits where no map can lead. “That is not a map,” Mason said. “That is a riddle pretending to be a map.” Nora traced the circle. “There is no marked tunnel here because it was in tentionally left off the survey plans