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Chapters (53)
  1. Front Cover
  2. Letter from the Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. • One •
  7. • Two •
  8. • Three •
  9. • Four •
  10. • Five •
  11. • Six •
  12. • Seven •
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  16. • Eleven •
  17. • Twelve •
  18. • Thirteen •
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  22. • Seventeen •
  23. • Eighteen •
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  25. • Twenty •
  26. • Twenty-One •
  27. • Twenty-Two •
  28. • Twenty-Three •
  29. • Twenty-Four •
  30. • Twenty-Five •
  31. • Twenty-Six •
  32. • Twenty-Seven •
  33. • Twenty-Eight •
  34. • Twenty-Nine •
  35. • Thirty •
  36. • Thirty-One •
  37. • Thirty-Two •
  38. • Thirty-Three •
  39. • Thirty-Four •
  40. • Thirty-Five •
  41. • Thirty-Six •
  42. • Thirty-Seven •
  43. • Thirty-Eight •
  44. • ∞ •
  45. • Thirty-Nine •
  46. • Forty •
  47. Epilogue
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. Excerpt from Be Dazzled
  50. One
  51. Two
  52. About the Author
  53. Back Cover

Elliot waved the girls over. They piled into his back seat, and then Elliot turned out of the lot as Adeline read directions off her phone. A few minutes later they arrived. Elliot, ever cautious, parked a street over. The same caution is why they’d left the other cars at the complex. The less to hide, the better, Elliot said. And then the four of them were in front of the house, Maxine’s house, which meant Kane had to explain why he’d brought them all here.

“Who else knows about Maxine Osman?” he asked.

Adeline and Elliot exchanged a look. “No one, yet,” Adeline said. “We imagined she’d be reported missing by someone, eventually. But she doesn’t have any family. No kids or anything.”

“She has a friend named Helena Quigley,” Kane said. “And I think she’s in that house.”

More glances were exchanged.

“And I think she’s in trouble,” Kane added.

“What sort of trouble?” asked Ursula.

“Reverie trouble,” Kane said.

Kane expected eye rolls and anger, but what he got was direct concern from the three of them as they peppered him with a million questions. He waved them away so he could explain.

“This is going to sound so weird, but I remember hearing this whispering after I unraveled Benny Cooper’s reverie, right before I gave it back to him. And then I heard that sound when I called Maxine’s house and someone picked up. And I think that someone was Helena.”

Adeline dialed Kane back with her index finger. “You called Maxine’s house?”

“Just once,” Kane said, a little ashamed. Again he waited for doubt and criticism, but the Others just nodded.

“In the past, you’ve been the best at figuring out where the next reverie was going to hit,” Elliot explained. “Probably part of that energy you can manipulate.”

“Etherea,” Kane said automatically.

“Is that what we’re calling it now?” Adeline asked pointedly, like she knew Kane hadn’t just made up the term. He looked away from her quickly.

“Just a name,” he said.

“And you feel like you can sense…etherea from inside that house?”

“Something like that.”

The Others had a silent conversation with only their eyes, perhaps deliberating how to handle Kane’s new, strange mission. Ursula was the one to step forward and say, “All right, the least we can do is take a look, right? If someone’s in trouble, it’s up to us to help them.”