title: Getting Out Alive: The Autumn Veatch Story
author:  Tara Ellis 
description: I was impressed with Autumn Veatch<i>before I</i>had the opportunity to interview her, and even more so after. It was important to me to protect Autumn's interest in<b>her</b>story, and for that reason, I have put the copyright in her name.
zlib_text: CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Also by Kerrigan Byrne
  About the Author
  
  Chapter One
  Calvine Village, Highlands, Scotland – 1891
  Winter Solstice
  FATE HAD BEEN Vanessa Latimer’s foe since she could remember.
  She was the most unlucky, ungainly person of her acquaintance, and had resigned herself to an
  early death. However, she always imagined said death would be glorious, as well.
  Or at least memorable.
  Something like tripping and accidentally sacrificing herself to a volcano in the Pacific Islands. Or
  perhaps becoming the unfortunate snack of a Nile crocodile or a tiger in Calcutta.
  Meeting her end as a human icicle in the Scottish Highlands had never made it on the list.
  Not until the angry blizzard turned the road to Inverness treacherous, and something had spooked
  the horse, sending the carriage careening into a boulder the size of a small cottage.
  The driver informed her that the wheel was irreparably damaged, and that she mus