Mary and Elizabeth
CHAPTER ONE Crawling lethargically from her hot, stuffy kennel, Mary emerged into thefierce Californian afternoon sunlight and cowered instinctively as the sun'srays fell upon her back like the heat from a furnace. She had suffered agoniesfrom sunburn in the first weeks of her captivity, but now the generous coatingof dirt she'd acquired protected her fair skin from its worst effects. At theend of her chain she squatted to urinate, the liquid vanishing immediatelyinto the parched, hard-packed...