title: Caretaker (Caretaker Chronicles Book 1)
author:  Josi Russell 
description: Josi Russell's science fiction novels explore familiar human relationships in unfamiliar contexts. Josi currently teaches creative writing and fiction courses as an associate professor of English for Utah State University Eastern. She lives in the alien landscape of the high desert American Southwest with her family.<br /><br />Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.
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  “The Caretakers” by David Nickle is a strange tale about a group of people
  called to a meeting with their intimidating boss. The newest member of their
  organization is not so sure she wants to even be there.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The meeting with Miss Erish started earlier than scheduled, in a room other
  than the one arranged. That meant they were all late, even Evelyn Simmons, who
  had flown in the day before and, unable to properly sleep owing to the time
  difference, risen long before the dawn.
  
  
  She lingered in her room barely an hour, then took an elevator down to the
  lobby. It was empty but for the night manager, who dutifully inquired as to
  her needs and then left her to herself, to wander restlessly from chair to
  bench to sofa in the cold and quiet predawn.
  
  
  Evelyn pored over emails, sent texts to her still-sleeping daughter back