EMERSON AND QUIG: BOOK ONE
ASSUMPTIONS
By
C.E. PietrowiakEmerson and Quig: Book One
Assumptions
Copyright © 2010 by C. E. Pietrowiak
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written
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embodied in critical articles and reviews.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
and incidents are a product of the author?s imagination or
are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events,
locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Lulu pocket edition October 2010
ISBN 978-0-557-70985-4
For more information about the author or the Emerson
and Quig series visit www.emersonandquig.com.
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The trefoil is by the author.To my family and friends
and to all the perfect strangers
who inspired these words.Table of Contents
Chapter One: In the Silence - 1
Chapter Two: Provident Six Months Prior - 2
Chapter Three: All Hallows Eve - 5
Chapter Four: Serendipity Smiles - 18
Chapter Five: Nobody - 28
Chapter Six: Leaving - 35
Chapter Seven: Least Among Us - 44
Chapter Eight: Grace - 52
Chapter Nine: Shut and Open - 59
Chapter Ten: Many Hopes Lie Buried Here - 64
Chapter Eleven: Atonement - 68
Chapter Twelve: Clean - 77
Chapter Thirteen: The Study - 83
Chapter Fourteen: The Key - 90
Chapter Fifteen: Mistaken - 101
Chapter Sixteen: The Messenger - 106
Chapter Seventeen: Elevenses - 110
Chapter Eighteen: The Sapphire Book - 118
Chapter Nineteen: Vespers - 124
Chapter Twenty: Diving - 128
Chapter Twenty-One: Ceili - 135
Chapter Twenty-Two: Gone - 149
Chapter Twenty-Three: Warm - 154
Chapter Twenty-Four: Compulsion - 160
Chapter Twenty-Five: Black and White - 166
Chapter Twenty-Six: Crossroads - 173
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Christmas Day - 179EMERSON AND QUIG: BOOK ONE
