# Read the first page of Soul Searching by Lyla Sage

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- Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/soul-searching-lyla-sage
- Genre: Paranormal romance
- Year: 2025
- ISBN: 9780593977781
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## The opening

There were three things that I could see out of my car's windshield, and all of them were ominous: a sharp and jagged mountain range with one point taller than all of the rest, a gray sky with clouds that were undoubtedly full of rain, and a plume of black smoke that was a little too close for comfort.

How close? Coming out of the hood of my car close.

"C'mon, girl," I whisper hopefully—giving my 2002 Camry a couple of slaps on the dash for good measure. My car was nowhere near the weirdest thing I'd spoken to. "Forty more miles. That's it. You can do forty more miles." Never mind that the forty more miles were steep, skinny, winding switchbacks that only had one destination: Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming.

Nestled in the shadow of the tallest peak in the Elk Spine mountain range, Sweetwater Peak was quiet, quirky, and quaint. It was also the last place I wanted to be.

As if my car could read my mind, she started to shake and sputter. Well, that's not a good sign. "I get it," I said. I didn't really take great care of this car—I didn't even remember the last time I drove it. For the past three years, it had been covered by a tarp in a storage unit in Meadowlark—about two hours south of Sweetwater Peak—which I got to by hitching a ride with a nice couple who were on my flight from Portland to Jackson. They were going to some guest ranch in the area for a week.

I liked having the freedom of having my car where I could get to it if I needed to without coming all the way home, though. So a storage unit was a good solution.

Now that my car sounded and felt like it was going to give out at any moment, though, I regretted not taking my twin sister up on her offer to pick me up from the airport today.

But I needed some time to mentally prepare to see Clarke and my parents. I love my family—really, I do. I'm just a firm believer in the whole "distance makes the heart grow fonder" thing. I've never loved my family more than when I wasn't living in the same town as them. Boundaries worked a hell of a lot better when there were thousands of miles between us.

I sighed loudly but not loud enough that I couldn't hear the rattle that was unmistakably coming from my engine as the car started to slow—even though my foot was still firmly on the gas pedal. Shit.

At this point, I didn't have a choice but to pull as far as I could onto the soft shoulder of the road. It wasn't wide enough to fit a whole car, but if I went any farther, the Camry and I would be barrel-rolling down the mountain.

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