title: Deadly Thirst: The True Story of a Foster Child's Murder
author:  Donna Goodenough 
description: Author Donna Goodenough was born in Covington Kentucky; raised in Southern California and spent the last twenty-two years of her United States residency in Riverside County. Although her age of 49 puts her somewhere in between childhood and retirement, she feels perfectly at ease writing at both ends of the spectrum-and everywhere else in between. Donna began her writing career as a freelance writer for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers; within a year she had her own travel column. Her journalistic versatility has resulted in feature-length articles in almost every type of publication imaginable, including children, religion, gardening, disabilities, adult fiction, animals, health and fitness and senior magazines. One example, Owl for Children prominently featured one of her articles to coincide with the Discovery Channel's Wooly Mammoth: Discovery in Siberia which aired in May of 1999. Later that same year, Owl devoted their cover, plus six pages and the centerfold of their October issue to Donna's up-close encounters with the Mountain Gorillas of Uganda. Her love of independent adventure travel has taken Donna to six continents, including Antarctica. In 1999 she spent three months traveling solo through nine African countries, which resulted in a highly acclaimed article on female circumcision. That much debated article landed her on radio talk shows coast to coast in the United States. There's no doubt that Donna's a thrill seeker/adrenaline junkie. She's skydived and bungee jumped in California, swam with piranhas in the Amazon, kayaked among killer whales in Canada, been chased by elephant seals in Antarctica, drank blood in Kenya, crawled through bat infested tombs in Egypt, camped (in a tent) along alligator infested rivers in the Peruvian rain forest, mud-wrestled in Hollywood, had her hiking boots stolen by a screaming, fang-baring troop of baboons in Tanzania, was dragged off a bus and threatene
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  The Beast In Him
  
  Shelly Laurenston
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  True, he was drunk. Very drunk. His daddy’s idea of a proper send-off for his
  youngest boy before the United States government owned his ass for the next
  few years. But just because he shouldn’t have had those last four tequilas,
  didn’t mean he didn’t know they were tracking her.
  
  They were always tracking her. Always screwing with her. From what he could
  tell, she didn’t even stay at the house anymore. Her foster parents didn’t
  care as long as the checks kept rolling in. So she mostly lived out in the
  woods like a wild child. Except she wasn’t a wild child. Just a poor kid who’d
  had the unlucky misfortune of getting on the wrong side of his baby sister.
  
  He caught their scent and immediately knew where they were heading—to the high
  school. They’d find her under the bleachers. She hid under t