Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins
A variety of strange, exotic things call the Nevada desert home. Rattlers. Bighorn sheep. Big sky sunsets. Area 51. Tumbling sagebrush, flat brown hills. Solitude for many hundreds of miles and emptiness for many more.
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“It’s war. They don’t give a freakin’ you-know-what about you. They will kill you. They’re out there to kill you. So I’m ‘a kill them.