Thank you all for the warm welcome and the helpful feedback. I am hard at work creating the next installment. The plan is to publish weekly and if I get the hang of this writing thing maybe more often. I am really blown away by authors like Grey Wolf who published 2x weekly and have stories that span hundreds of chapters.
I am still finding my voice and style while trying to honor Cold Creek's Work. Several of you mentioned my tone was too staccato and terse so I will work on this as well as building in more inner monologue. Hard to break lifelong habits!
Thanks...CCTW