What Cambria was for Logan was a place where he could just be, and not worry if it was right or confining or safe or any of those kinds of things. Now, instead of small and confining, he would have said Cambria felt right. He was gone fifteen years before everything changed, and the only place that made sense for him to go was home. He couldnРІР‚в„ўt wait until he turned eighteen and could leave, and that was exactly what he did-Army, college, a great job at a defense contractor based in D.C. It had been a good place to grow up, but like most teenagers in small towns, Logan had seen it as confining. That Tuesday morning was no different.Р”В¬ambria was located on the Central Coast of California, almost exactly at the midpoint between Los Angeles in the south and San Francisco in the north. But he kept at it, finally training himself to focus on the page and not on the past.Р”Р„t 5:55 a.m., he would close whatever book he was reading, and head out. In the first few months, it had been almost impossible to concentrate on the words. In the mornings this meant a six-mile run, a shower, twenty minutes reading, then out the door to work. In the two years since he moved back to his hometown of Cambria, California, heРІР‚в„ўd basically done the same things everyday. HeРІР‚в„ўd developed a strict schedule that allowed him to go from one task to the next to the next. It was time to get up, and start pushing the words away.Р”В¬reating habits had been the key.

He reached for his cell phone a second before its alarm started softly beeping. The best he could hope for was to force them to the back of his mind, and make them a distant whisper he could almost ignore. He knew the words wouldnРІР‚в„ўt completely go away. It had been the dream again, always the dream. РІР‚СљGet the girl,РІР‚Сњ the voice whispered once more. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Р”Р‡or more information about the author, please visit For more information about the artist, please visit 1 Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the authorРІР‚в„ўs imagination or are used fictitiously. Cover art copyright Р’В© 2011 by Jeroen ten Berge

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