Sylvia Sheppard – författare

Pallye ODay is on the run from her past, pushed by a darkness that hides terrifying secrets. Exceptionally thin and sickly, twenty-four-year-old Pallye emerges from the woods outside Nowhere, Washington, mute, looking much younger than her age, and unwilling to reveal anything about herself or her past to the townspeople.As the time wears on, Pallye begins speaking only to those she trusts while gaining weight and beauty, soon attracting the attention of Ezekiel, a brute mountain man. After he drags her from the diner where she works to his mountain home, the residents of Nowhere know they cannot argue with Zek, for he is a man who always gets what he wants. Now as Pallye captures Zeks heart, he must somehow attempt to battle her demons and protect her from her haunting past before it catches up with her.Trail of Dreams tells the tale of a girls journey to the truth as she attempts to escape the horrors of her past, with help from a determined mountain man.

This volume contains the papers presented at the second workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers. They represent a variety of approaches and topics covering the research in this area. All the chapters present research that bears on programmers. Together with the first volume edited by Elliot Soloway and Sitharama Iyengar, these chapters contribute to a growing knowledge base about how programmers go about their task and how they progress from novice to expert levels.