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CONTENT WARNING
This book contains subject material that may be disturbing or upsetting to some readers including: child abduction, needles, and violence involving blood, torture, and death.
The box just fit in her palm. It was thin and square, wrapped in simple brown paper. She held it …
The air cooled with the fading light and the robin’s egg-blue sky deteriorated into the steel gray of dusk. Caitriona’s …
“Ah, so you don’t want to go because you feel like everyone’s lied to you about it?” Tyler said.“Not exactly …
Caitriona watched out the car window as Fianna drove to the airport. The sky lay like a bruise above them. …
Rust decayed on every corner and edge of The Spartan. It ate away large holes in the walls. All the …
“There once lived a bellavalier.”“That’s me!” Caitriona said, bouncing in her bed.Her father smiled and put his finger to his …
“Fuck me dead,” the Strokes fan said. A sandy beach, deep green forest, and a distant mountain range sat atop a …
They walked through the woods for ten minutes. The light grew darker, the trees forming a green wall of foliage …
Caitriona woke up the next morning with her thoughts laying like an anchor on her pillow. That vibrating aliveness tingled …
A figure stood in a darkened room before a large viewing window. They were tall and extremely thin, with narrow, …
Caitriona kept an eye on Justine as they entered the stadium. Justine insisted that she wanted to go, but Caitriona …
Monday morning dawned on the campus buzzing with an excitement far surpassing the typical first-day-of-school thrill. The electricity in the …
Caitriona shielded her eyes from the bright fall sunshine and stared at the strange obelisk sitting in the center of …
Beyond the entry and large staircase, the first floor of the freshmen dormitory was an open common area filled with …
The playground buzzed like a beehive with toddlers and young kids swarming around. They laughed and called to their friends, …
Caitriona jolted awake and sat up in bed. Her heart pounded in her chest and she felt clammy. What had …
Saturday morning, Dusha came out of her room wearing cornflower blue from head to toe.“What in the world?” Justine said.“Go …
Caitriona’s feet callused over the blisters from her new shoes as she walked the paths of ELA’s campus every day. …
Darkness shrouded the world. The moon rose as if playing fast-motion footage. It stopped at its apex in a starless …
Caitriona resisted the urge to smash her phone against the wall. She gripped it tightly in her hand and scowled …
A woman lay naked on a stretcher. It was made of clear glass and curved so that she reclined in …
“I’m not going to lie,” Dusha said, “I want to be earth because marjing is amazing. But this is forking …
“Professor Olya,” Caitriona approached her teacher at the end of their survival lesson. It was their third earth lesson, but …
Caitriona winced as she pushed the bruise blooming on her ribs. Professor Vigga seemed intent on making up for their …
Her chest and throat burned the rest of the day. Every inhale felt like breathing shards of ice.When they returned, …
The world was more crowded than Caitriona remembered as she stepped off the airplane in the San Francisco airport. And …
New Year’s Eve dawned bright and cheery. Caitriona and Murphy met Georgia, her golden retriever Buddy, and Wyatt at the …
Classes didn’t resume until the second week in January. She wasn’t ready to go back to campus, but after the …
Dusha was the first.Caitriona and Eero returned to the Hive after their second survival class since returning from break and …
Caitriona couldn’t sleep. Despite the tea’s effort, she felt the frustration stirring and had nothing to distract herself with lying …
Firelight danced across his back as Maro Soter stared, unseeing, out the high-pitched windows. Rain lashed against the glass and …
Caitriona was gripped with anger before she was even fully conscious. She floundered in the blankets she’d tangled herself in, …
Her mind woke up, but moments passed before Caitriona returned. Followed immediately by a pounding in her head. Her eyelids …
“The Spartan was a glittering submarine made of clear crystal. The bellavalier maneuvered it through the meadows of seagrass and …
The tonic allowed Caitriona to sleep again, but when she woke up, it was still dark and the familiar shaking …
“Should I stop? Is it too scary?” her father asked.Caitriona clutched at her coverlet, peeking from underneath. She lowered it …
Her phone lit up and buzzed angrily across the desk. Caitriona squeezed her eyes shut against the light filling the …
In the early afternoon on Saturday, Oliver waltzed into the room and straight to Caitriona. She was stretched out on …
They stared at the lights until they blinked out. Caitriona didn’t want to leave the cave. She felt like they’d …
Kali hurried down the hallway. Indica loped in front of her, pushing anyone aside that may get in the way. …
Caitriona walked along the paths of the Village, the sun shining on her face and warming the top of her …
The remaining weeks of ELA’s term transformed Caitriona. Her signum and the two daily doses from Nurse P erased the …
Kali stood in front of the thick, wooden doors. The cuticle on her thumb was bleeding, but she didn’t notice …
“Cat…” Oliver’s voice whispered into her sleep.She snorted and groaned.“Wake up, I want to show you something,” Oliver said. He …
What had happened? Was someone hurt? The shadow vision of the hyena tormented her as they hurried through the trees. …
“Daddy,” Caitriona sat up in bed, clutching Nelia. “Yes, ma sprit lib?”“What happens to us when we die?” “Hmm…” her …
“How much longer will she be like this?”“That’s up to her.”“But she’s going to be all right?”“That’s up to her.” …
Caitriona wanted to go alone, but Oliver flat out refused.“I shouldn’t have to explain why that’s a bloody terrible idea,” …
One day, the young girl set out on a hunt. The people of her island had told her many stories …
Oliver stayed quiet as the ferry returned to Lake Michigan. The weather was cooler on this plane and Caitriona shivered. …