Caliche Road Run
The Cibolo Creek bridge goes into the flood at 4:48 in the afternoon, and seventeen-year-old Cruz Rentería is on the wrong side of it. Behind him, three registered Brangus heifers are panting in a steel trailer, their core temperatures climbing toward the number that kills them.
Highway 67 is underwater, the county is out of radio contact, and the only route left to the Alpine veterinary clinic is ninety miles of caliche ranch road through the Chinati foothills -- white dirt that turns to grease-slick paste under two inches of rain. Cruz knows every gate and cattle guard on it. He has a mechanic's hands, a failing diesel, and no authority to be doing this at all.
Belén Garza, the foreman's daughter, is already in the sleeper with a veterinary kit and lease maps she was never supposed to have. Then a lifted flatbed with a steel brush guard begins running them down the shelf road, and the night stops being about a delivery.
A dust-and-diesel young adult thriller set in Far West Texas, where the storm and the men hunting them do equal damage, and two teenagers have until dawn to get their cargo off the caliche alive.
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The pipe corrals at Shafter held the heat like a skillet holds grease. Nothing moved in the white dust, and everything burned to the touch, and the co-op thermometer by the scale house had been stuck at one hundred and six since noon.
Cruz Rentería came off the loading chute with his shirt glued to his spine and a copper taste sitting at the root of his tongue. The air was so wet it felt like breathing through a dishrag. Somewhere south past the Chinati rim, thunder rolled without a cloud in sight.
"Second one's in," he said. "She went down on the ramp. I had to lift her tail."
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