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  1. Cover
  2. Full Page Image
  3. Introduction
  4. Advance Praise for Reunion
  5. Dedication
  6. Map
  7. Quote
  8. Prologue
  9. All About Eric Weiss
  10. The Young Magician
  11. From the Wikipedia entry for Middleton:
  12. Where They Used to Live
  13. All About Carrie Keene
  14. The Girl Detective
  15. All About Alana Bright
  16. The Warrior Princess
  17. All About Daniel Sharp IV
  18. The Boy Genius
  19. I’ve Done My Part
  20. The Only Warrior Left
  21. The World Beneath the World
  22. Even Less Fun Now
  23. The Flawless Performance of Innumerable Lines of Code
  24. Like Time-Lapse Photography
  25. You Don’t Have to Go Home but You Can’t Stay Here
  26. This is Where She Gets It
  27. I Never Believed in Prophecies
  28. Normal People Stumble Along
  29. INTERLUDE: The Case of the Candy Cult
  30. That’s How Her Story Ought to Go
  31. Normal Is Whatever You Grow Up With
  32. Even Good Kids Have Their Limits
  33. INTERLUDE: The Menace of the Middleton Monster
  34. Alanis Morissette Irony or the Other Kind
  35. What You Want Is Not the Most Important Thing
  36. INTERLUDE: Trapped in the Goblin’s Lair
  37. The Slowest Person in the Room
  38. INTERLUDE: The Final Secret of Dr. Sax
  39. All Part of King Jeremy’s Land
  40. INTERLUDE: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  41. You Breathed It In, All the Time
  42. INTERLUDE: What Happened
  43. Danny Sharp Doesn’t Believe in Ghosts
  44. Ice and Bottles of Zima
  45. You Were Right All Along
  46. A Lot of Sacrificing to Do Tonight
  47. You Walked Right into It
  48. How Magic Works
  49. Was This Your Master Plan
  50. This Time, I Swear, We Can Do It Right
  51. You’d Think He Would Know Better
  52. Fresh Blood on Its Hands
  53. Any One of a Thousand Different Men
  54. The End of the World over There
  55. These Are Not Ideal Conditions
  56. Lightning and Thunder, Demons and Angels
  57. Into the Jaws of the Dragon
  58. Unafraid at Sunset
  59. Epilogue
  60. Acknowledgments
  61. About the Author
  62. Other Works by Christopher Farnsworth

She’s not thrilled about that, but she’s mostly angry about the case falling apart, and the fact that Gannon really didn’t seem to have a clue about the Followers. She can’t stand loose ends and unsolved mysteries. She’s been like that since she was a little girl.

Her fridge is empty. Not even ketchup. She slams the door shut. She thinks about going out, then decides against it. She doesn’t feel like seeing people right now.

Carrie checks her email, which is mostly messages of support from the other agents. A couple admit they wish they’d hit Gannon themselves. (They use their private email accounts for this, of course. Nothing ever vanishes from the government servers.)

She calls for Chinese delivery while she sorts the mail from her mailbox down in the lobby. Most of it is junk. But then she looks at an envelope with a cartoon Viking printed on it.

She breathes deeply, and opens the envelope.

She looks at the invitation for her twenty-year reunion, then flips it over. On the back, written in block letters, she sees:

YOU HAVE TO STOP IT

She doesn’t waste any more time in disbelief. Carrie has always been a detective. She follows the clues, wherever they lead.

Her phone rings at that same moment, because this is where she lives again. Back in the world of coincidences and synchronicity and omens. She sees the name on the display.

ERIC.

“Hey,” she says. “Funny. I was just about to call you.”

All About Alana Bright

NAME: Alana Bright

ALL ABOUT ME!

Answer the questions and tell us about yourself. Please write clearly.

1. Who is in your family?

Me and my mom and dad.

2. Do you have any pets? What are their names?

We don’t have any pets. But I know a lot about animals. Once I helped cut up a cow so I could see what its insides were like.

3. What does your father do?

He is a nurse. Men can be nurses.

4. What does your mother do?

She does a lot of things.

5. Who is your hero?

I am learning to be my own hero.

6. What do you want to do when you grow up?

Happy.

4

The Warrior Princess

Alana Bright watches her daughter Grace in the rearview mirror while they sit at the red light. Grace is totally absorbed in her book. (Latest in a series about children who discover they’re actually the last in a line of demigods. Alana can’t stand them, but whatever gets Grace reading.) Grace feels her mother’s attention on her, and looks up, scowling. “What?” she says.

Alana beams at her. “Nothing. I just love you so much.”

Grace rolls her eyes. “Thanks for the update, Mom. Light’s green, by the way.”