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Chapters (54)
  1. Cover
  2. EVERWILD
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Copyright Page
  6. PART ONEA Vapor of Afterlights
  7. CHAPTER 1Fresh Havoc
  8. CHAPTER 2The View on High
  9. CHAPTER 3Audience with an Ogre
  10. CHAPTER 4The Outcast
  11. CHAPTER 5Southern Discomfort
  12. CHAPTER 6Shuttle Diplomacy
  13. CHAPTER 7A Fistful of Forever
  14. PART TWODancing with the Deadlies
  15. CHAPTER 8Treasures of the Flesh
  16. CHAPTER 9Good Stewards
  17. CHAPTER 10Skinjacking for Fun and Profit
  18. CHAPTER 11Surfing Tennessee
  19. CHAPTER 12Of Monsters and Mullets
  20. CHAPTER 13Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
  21. CHAPTER 14Strange Winds
  22. CHAPTER 15The Flight of Mikey McGill
  23. PART THREEThe Great White City
  24. CHAPTER 16Mary’s Master Plan
  25. CHAPTER 17The Death Boss
  26. CHAPTER 18The Interlight Incubator
  27. CHAPTER 19Eminence Green
  28. PART FOURWay of the Chocolate Warrior
  29. CHAPTER 20The Great Train Robbery
  30. CHAPTER 21Let ’Er Rip
  31. CHAPTER 22Cram That Sucker
  32. CHAPTER 23Severance and Blithe
  33. CHAPTER 24It’s a Dog’s Life
  34. PART FIVEThe Skinjacker Revelations
  35. CHAPTER 25Lair of the Cat Woman
  36. CHAPTER 26Home
  37. CHAPTER 27Skinjacker’s Lullaby
  38. CHAPTER 28The Sleep of the Dead
  39. CHAPTER 29Teed for Two
  40. CHAPTER 30A Place on the Mantel
  41. PART SIXCity of the Dead
  42. CHAPTER 31On the Banks of Eternity
  43. CHAPTER 32The Low Approach
  44. CHAPTER 33Suspicious Minds
  45. CHAPTER 34Poolside Rendezvous
  46. CHAPTER 35Allie-Allie-Oxen-Free
  47. CHAPTER 36The Intolerable Nexus of Extremes
  48. CHAPTER 37Sky Refugees
  49. CHAPTER 38Last Train Out of Memphis
  50. CHAPTER 39At the Moment of Madness
  51. CHAPTER 40The Changeling and the Golem
  52. EPILOGUERequiem for the Living
  53. Unwind excerpt
  54. Unwholly excerpt

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To be an AWOL Unwind is one thing, but to be a cop killer is another. The manhunt for Starkey becomes more than just your typical Unwind chase. It seems the whole world is put on alert. First Starkey changes his look, dying his straggly brown hair red, cutting it bookworm-short, and shaving off the little victory garden goatee that he’s been cultivating since middle school. Now when people see him, they might get a feeling they’ve seen him before, but not know from where, because now he looks less like a face from a wanted poster and more like someone you’d see on a Wheaties box. The red hair is a bit of a disconnect with his olive complexion, but then, being a genetic hodgepodge has served him well all his life. He’s always been a chameleon who could pass for any ethnicity. The red hair just adds one more level of misdirection.

He skips town and never stays anywhere for more than a day or two. Word is that the Pacific Northwest is more sympathetic to AWOL Unwinds than Southern California, so that’s where he’s headed.

Starkey is prepared for life as a fugitive, because he has always lived in a kind of protective paranoia. Don’t trust anyone, not even your own shadow, and look out for your own best interests. His friends appreciated his clear-cut approach to life, because they always knew where they stood. He would fight to the end for his friends . . . as long as it was in his own interest to do so.

“You have the soul of a corporation,” a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took it as a compliment. Corporations have great power and do fine things in this world when they choose to. She was a glacier-hugging math teacher who got laid off the following year, because who needs math teachers when you can just get a NeuroWeave? Just goes to show you, hugging a chunk of ice gets you nothing but cold.

Now, however, Starkey’s one with the huggers, because they’re the kind of people who run the Anti-Divisional Resistance, harboring runaway Unwinds. Once he’s in the hands of the ADR, he knows he’ll be safe, but finding them is the hard part.