New York Times bestselling author KIM HARRISON was born and raised in the upper Midwest but has since fled south to better avoid snow. She spends her time tending orchids, cooking with some guy in a leather jacket, and training her dog. Her current vices include good chocolate and exquisite sushi. Kim is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel ONCE DEAD, TWICE SHY, her young adult debut, as well as the bestselling Hollows series, and she contributed to the paranormal collection PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL. You can visit her online at www.kimharrison.net.
Also by KIM HARRISON:
Once Dead, Twice Shy
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EARLY TO DEATH, EARLY TO RISE. Copyright © 2010 by Kim Harrison. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harrison, Kim.
Early to death, early to rise / by Kim Harrison.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
ISBN 978-0-06-171817-5
[1. Dead—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Future life—Fiction. 4. Fate and fatalism—Fiction. 5. Supernatural—
Fiction. 6. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.H2526On 2009 2009026331
[Fic]—dc22
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199589-7
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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