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Chapters (81)
  1. Cover
  2. Back Cover Text
  3. Praise
  4. Booklist
  5. Dedication
  6. About the Author
  7. Chapter One
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Chapter Three
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. Chapter Thirteen
  20. Chapter Fourteen
  21. Chapter Fifteen
  22. Chapter Sixteen
  23. Chapter Seventeen
  24. Chapter Eighteen
  25. Chapter Nineteen
  26. Chapter Twenty
  27. Chapter Twenty-One
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five
  32. Chapter Twenty-Six
  33. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  34. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  35. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  36. Chapter Thirty
  37. Chapter Thirty-One
  38. Chapter Thirty-Two
  39. Chapter Thirty-Three
  40. Chapter Thirty-Four
  41. Chapter Thirty-Five
  42. Chapter Thirty-Six
  43. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  44. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  45. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  46. Chapter Forty
  47. Chapter Forty-One
  48. Chapter Forty-Two
  49. Chapter Forty-Three
  50. Chapter Forty-Four
  51. Chapter Forty-Five
  52. Chapter Forty-Six
  53. Chapter Forty-Seven
  54. Chapter Forty-Eight
  55. Chapter Forty-Nine
  56. Chapter Fifty
  57. Chapter Fifty-One
  58. Chapter Fifty-Two
  59. Chapter Fifty-Three
  60. Chapter Fifty-Four
  61. Chapter Fifty-Five
  62. Chapter Fifty-Six
  63. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  64. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  65. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  66. Chapter Sixty
  67. Chapter Sixty-One
  68. Chapter Sixty-Two
  69. Chapter Sixty-Three
  70. Chapter Sixty-Four
  71. Chapter Sixty-Five
  72. Chapter Sixty-Six
  73. Chapter Sixty-Seven
  74. Chapter Sixty-Eight
  75. Chapter Sixty-Nine
  76. Chapter Seventy
  77. Chapter Seventy-One
  78. Chapter Seventy-Two
  79. Chapter Seventy-Three
  80. Chapter Seventy-Four
  81. Acknowledgments

Her whole body started to shake, as he pressed down even harder. It was easy, this. Just grip down and watch a soul disappear, a life force fade away. Her eye rolled back in her head, and a frothy spit started coming out of her mouth.

Amber was making some kind of sound behind him—something between a laugh and a cry, holding the woman’s shaking limbs down. Tim wasn’t laughing. But he wasn’t crying either.

He was in the moment, existing faster and stronger than he ever had before. What a feeling—to have a life in your grip. And to be allowed to be the one to decide that it was over. He pressed even harder just for the hell of it, and a little laugh escaped him.

Such fun.

And then she gave one final choke, a wheeze. And her body stilled. Her eye rolled back. And she stared at him, would forever. He knew she was dead.

But he carried on, squeezing her neck.

For how long—he didn’t know. But soon enough, Amber was forcing him upright and pulling him into a hug. She was laughing, and he did too. And then she cried, and so did he. But for him—for both of them—they weren’t tears of pain. They were tears of joy.

At becoming something new.

Chapter Sixty-Three

Three years ago...

They were all sitting around the table in the basement. Except Edmund, who couldn’t seem to sit, as though sitting was too much of a normal action for this crazy night. They had been meaning to get to work—they got the shovels from The Hamlet shed that was never locked. And they found a toolbox with a crowbar that could be used to pry up the floorboards—although it wouldn’t take much prying.

No one was talking. No one was looking at each other—except Amber and Tim. They were having a hushed conversation at the head of the table, sitting as close to each other as if they were lovers. Edmund watched them out of the corner of his eye, and saw that Rachel was watching them too.

The woman hadn’t moved for almost twenty minutes. She was really dead this time. The subject was now going to be how the group could live on. Not Tim, he would be fine—Amber had shown him the way.