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    Beneath and Beyond
    Beneath and Beyond
    Beneath and Beyond
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    Beneath and Beyond

    By Debbie Mumford

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    Beneath and Beyond explores humanity's first contact with an alien race. Archaeologist Erin Carstedter is a no-nonsense kind of gal. If something can't be defined by scientific method, it doesn't exist. Erin's beliefs are about to be tested by a ruin beneath the polar ice cap. What Erin discovers in those icy depths will challenge her thinking...and change the world.

    Author Bio:
    Debbie Mumford specializes in the unknown —fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular “Sorcha’s Children” series, Debbie loves mythology and is especially fond of Celtic and Native American lore. She writes about dragons, thunderbirds and time-traveling lovers for adults as herself and for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWDM Publishing
    Release dateJul 24, 2011
    ISBN9781466177680
    Beneath and Beyond
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    Debbie Mumford

    Debbie Mumford specializes in speculative fiction—fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, Debbie loves the unknown, whether it’s the lure of space or earthbound mythology. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Fiction River, as well as in Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other popular markets. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford and contemporary fantasy for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.

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      Beneath and Beyond - Debbie Mumford

      Beneath And Beyond

      Beneath And Beyond

      Debbie Mumford

      WDM Publishing

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgments

      About Debbie Mumford

      Also by Debbie Mumford

      1

      Dr. Erin Carstedter stepped out of the harness and away from the access shaft. She tried not to think about the weight of the glacier pressing down on this tiny bubble of air. The cavern glowed with an eerie blue-white light, cast by a battery-powered lantern suspended from a piton driven high into the wall. The ice’s ability to simultaneously reflect and absorb the light fascinated her.

      A haphazard pile of boxes and tools occupied the space just below the lantern. On the opposite wall stood the object of her team’s efforts — a magnificently carved door enthroned in an ancient wall. Technicians had already thawed its hinges, leaving heated gel packs plastered to the surface to keep the door movable until the techs could pull out and the team’s archaeologists move in. She busied herself checking equipment while waiting for her friend and colleague to finish his descent into the blue-tinged bubble.

      Sensitive new sonar imaging had detected a land mass and its ruined city buried under hundreds of feet of arctic ice some fifty miles north of Alert, Canada’s northernmost settlement. The more romantic among the team’s members whispered Atlantis! But not Erin. Her thoughts revolved around solid, observable, measurable data. Though she longed to know when and how a human settlement had prospered this far north, she scoffed at the notion of the mythic lost continent. Hadn’t people ever heard of fiction? Did they suppose the tendency to imagine idealized, fairy-tale societies a new wrinkle in humanity’s collective unconscious?

      She reached out to stroke the frost-whitened marble door. The climate had to have undergone drastic change to support a civilization on the scale disclosed by remote sensing. Their access shaft, and this cavern, revealed only a minute portion of the long-buried city.

      The decision-makers, after weeks of careful study of the sonar map, had finally decided to sink the access shaft at this location. Archaeologists had vied to guess which buildings might house what artifacts from the safety of wind-scoured Quonset huts staked to the surface of the glacier. Yet, even in the heated interior of insulated shelters, men and women worked bundled in sweaters, scarves, and fingerless gloves. All to allow Erin to stand in admiration of a door carved from marble who knew how long ago.

      Ready to step into the past, Dr. Carstedter?

      Erin turned toward the voice. She knew the figure hunched in the little

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