Daylighters

Rachel Caine

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The Morganville Vampires Novels

Glass Houses

The Dead Girls’ Dance

Midnight Al ey

Feast of Fools

Lord of Misrule

Carpe Corpus

Fade Out

Kiss of Death

Ghost Town

Bite Club

Last Breath

Black Dawn

Bit er Blood

Fal of Night

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THE

MORGANVILLE

VAMPIRES

Daylighters

Rachel Caine

NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY

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New American Library

Published by the Penguin Group

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First published by New American Library,

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First Printing, November 2013

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This one’s for you, dear reader. You’ve been such

enthusiastic residents of Morganville that I can’t

imagine dedicating this book to anyone else.

Thanks for taking this long, strange journey with

me . . . and I hope you never want to leave our little

town. Here, have a resident card. Lines for the

blood bank form to the right. . . .

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Acknowledgements

Without Ter Matthies, this whole series would never have existed.

Thank you, Ter. Love and respect, and I will always remember

your light.

Also: Heidi Berthiaume, Jemina Venter, Sarah Weiss, Janet

Cadsawan, NiNi Burkart, Lucienne Diver, and Anne Sowards—

all of whom deserve my utmost love and respect.

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INTRODUCTION

Morganville, Texas, isn’t like any other dusty small

town. It’s got secrets. It’s a company town . . . and the

company is vampires. If you stay, you work for them,