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A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet had heard wild wolves before, prowling the countryside in search of easy prey on the farms. But never had a wolf's howl send a chill down her spine like that.

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Marissa Meyer
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: February 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Night
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Wolf
Silenced
Even
Wild
Chill
Sucking
Never
Air
Rats
Scarlet
Like
City
Lungs
Chatter
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Prey
Wolves
Loitering
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Farms
Howl
Prowling
Heard
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Countryside
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