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Begin ReadingTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorCopyright PageThank you for buying thisTom Doherty Associates ebook.To receive special offers, bonus content,and info on new releases and other great reads,sign up for our newsletters.Or visit us online atus.macmillan.com/newslettersignupFor email updates on the author, click here.
Page 4 and 5: The author and publisher have provi
Page 6 and 7: Author’s NoteThis story explores
Page 8 and 9: expected those within earshot to do
Page 10 and 11: She nodded, but he didn’t think s
Page 12 and 13: He felt a strange twist in his ches
Page 14 and 15: “You’re serious,” she whisper
Page 16 and 17: CHAPTER2His funeral was sparsely at
Page 18 and 19: “Such an asshole,” Hernandez ag
Page 20 and 21: make him look as if he’d been a c
Page 22 and 23: Had what started out as a professio
Page 24 and 25: Naomi’s expression hardened. “I
Page 26 and 27: “I should hope not,” she said.
Page 28 and 29: on.” She winced. “And that’s
Page 30 and 31: She shook her head before stopping
Page 32 and 33: CHAPTER3Wallace was screaming when
Page 34 and 35: “What is it?” he yelled, still
Page 36 and 37: nose was running, and though she tr
Page 38 and 39: CHARON’S CROSSINGTEA AND TREATS
Page 40 and 41: But that was where the similarity t
Page 42 and 43: “I don’t even know you.”She h
Page 44 and 45: a picture of a waterfall, the spray
Page 46 and 47: “What the hell was that?” he de
Page 48 and 49: trouble.”Wallace bristled. “My
Page 50 and 51: would be disappointed she wasn’t
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Another voice came then, deep and w
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CHAPTER5Wallace had never been a fa
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“Younger,” Wallace repeated.
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“He tends to be hyperbolic,” Me
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“I know that,” Wallace snapped.
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“Oh no,” Mei breathed. She set
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He’d never been much of a runner,
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Through the coolers.He yelled incoh
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Wallace jerked his head when Mei ap
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“The process sped up the moment y
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faded as he glanced at Wallace. “
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The air was cooler still. Wallace s
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“They are. Not like you and me, b
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understand.” He rubbed his jaw.
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aren’t. I’ve never had another
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Wallace’s eyes stung. He blinked
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She sat up in her bed, the blankets
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heavily through his nose as he trie
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we see in our dreams is someone we
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CHAPTER8He opened his eyes again wh
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“Oh,” Hugo said. “Well. Until
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Nelson shrugged. “We have no secr
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doesn’t always work the first tim
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Wallace threw up his hands. “That
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was as if they were simply existing
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“You don’t know me.” It wasn
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seemed to get the words out. He fro
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She shrugged. “I like the dead mo
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That certainly didn’t make him fe
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He blinked. “Oh. I … suppose it
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“Until?”Her eyes slid unfocused
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stand there gawking. It’s unbecom
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“That wasn’t an offer.”“Sou
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Denial, maybe? That didn’t make h
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“I guess.”“He can be a little
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but it’s always the same.” He h
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going off in my head, the explosion
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Hugo ran his hand over his hair. Su
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Hugo shrugged, fingers twitching on
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CHAPTER10A few nights later, Wallac
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shooting stars, and a memory rose u
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“Traitor,” Wallace mumbled. The
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it as hard as he could), he still h
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were a ghost and could no longer sl
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CHAPTER11On the thirteenth day of W
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He had. Wallace now wore … soccer
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“Because saying not to worry abou
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The other man couldn’t have been
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pulled her back into the kitchen.De
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For a moment, Wallace thought it wa
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for it.” She trailed a finger alo
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Wallace snorted. “Oh, yeah. I’l
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be dripping down his forehead. Desd
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Desdemona stood abruptly, chair scr
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That stunned him, especially when h
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“Why did you do it?”Wallace fro
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remembered he couldn’t. He pulled
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Wallace thought of his mother in th
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Hugo said, “Part of them lingers
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trust her. Mei will tell you that I
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And wasn’t that a conundrum? “N
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“Because you’re still here.”
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part of the original construction,
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“Of course,” Hugo said, looking
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lot of people, and everyone knows i
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“I’ll keep that in mind.”“J
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“I loved my wife,” Nelson said,
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“But you’d know what to expect.
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tea doesn’t mean I love every kin
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CHAPTER14Wallace paused in the door
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Mei closed the door. The latch clic
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“Something you’ll have to find
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“The clock,” Alan said. “It
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Wallace tried to argue when Hugo as
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believe in. That’s your faith. Th
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negligible impulse. He was a tea pl
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Another star in the distance, but i
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“I can move chairs. I can break l
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right. She usually is, but with thi
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they’re not as gone as you think?
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“My son,” Nelson said. “A goo
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“Go check on them,” Nelson said
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to cross, we can go back to normal.
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Wallace had never been a fan of the
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She walked through the door as she
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is not to say anything at all.”
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“For the love of all that’s hol
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in through his nose and out his mou
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“I … don’t know?” His own w
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The last customer left for the day
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“I really am.”Wallace looked ba
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Wallace felt his skin crawl. “It
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when Alan jerked his arm back, elbo
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stretched long. The light pulsed ag
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He was young, perhaps nine or ten,
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The boy laughed. It sounded like he
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but in danger of flickering out. I
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The Manager dropped the hook, and a
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the bottom of Alan’s feet. Before
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opened your eyes. I can see the goo
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CHAPTER18Hugo said, “Alan. Wallac
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The first night was anger.Oh, but w
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exertion. Spit flew from his mouth.
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Wallace was leaning on. Wallace did
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Mei wiped her eyes. “I think I li
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Nancy appeared in the doorway. Squa
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each other. Do you understand? Ther
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“I did,” Hugo said. He held up
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Nancy began to sob. It crawled from
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“That’s … what I asked, yes.
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He’d startled her when he’d lau
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still, tell him. I want to record h
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“Did he? That’s … odd. Why wo
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“I have the worst ideas,” Walla
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CHAPTER20The next day was hard.Wall
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like a weirdo.”Hugo crossed his a
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He squeezed his thighs against the
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Rocks and dust kicked up around the
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broke their entire world apart. Ble
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He stood in front of a tea shop at
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He raised his head, and everything
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“You can’t blame him. He didn
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Cameron. These whispers were more f
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he drank. Mei went next, followed b
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rise and rise and rise until he too
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“I know,” Hugo said. “Stay wi
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“You do,” Hugo agreed. “Sit a
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CHAPTER22The next morning—the sev
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whispered. “When you brought me b
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“Not now,” Wallace said. “I w
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And Hugo said, “No. I won’t.”
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His bottom lip stuck out farther.
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“Because you know we can do it,
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“Never in your life,” Nelson gr
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Too thorough, if you ask me, but si
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He kissed Wallace on the lips and t
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Wallace repeated the same pattern o
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He felt Hugo standing before him. H
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but Hugo was persistent, Wallace fe
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skin filled with the colors of life
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They listened.They learned.They und
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“It hurts,” Hugo said as he lif
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“You have a gift,” Nelson told
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That night, Wallace found Hugo on t
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSUnder the Whispering
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Thanks to Lynn and Mia, my beta rea
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Welcome, MEIYING. You have been ass
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SECTION IWHAT IS A REAPER?Reapers h
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SECTION DXLIUH OH! YOUR DD IS UPSET
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SECTION VMCDLINOW IT’S YOUR TIME
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TOR BOOKS BY TJ KLUNEFOR YOUNG ADUL
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Thank you for buying thisTom Dohert
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