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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 •
  13. • Eight •
  14. • Nine •
  15. • Ten •
  16. • Eleven •
  17. • Twelve •
  18. • Thirteen •
  19. • Fourteen •
  20. • Fifteen •
  21. • Sixteen •
  22. • Seventeen •
  23. • Eighteen •
  24. • Nineteen •
  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

Kane dragged his sister away by the elbow. “What the hell are you doing here?”

Sophia shook him off. “I came to Roost to see if you wanted to get food. A peace offering, but you were with that guy. And then I saw you race after him, so I followed. And…” Her voice trailed off as she watched the garden grow wild around them. “Kane, are you seeing this, too?”

“You were spying on me?”

Sophia’s eyes darted between Kane, the Others, and the garden. “No, I mean, I guess. I was spying on all of you. Who are they? More ‘tutors’ of yours? What is this?”

“You need to go, Sophia. It’s not safe for you here.” Kane shoved her away. Golden pollen floated in the air now, and it had grown unusually sunny just over the house. The reverie was building itself all around them.

Sophia pushed past Kane and addressed Adeline. “You! I know you. You do dance at the conservatory, right?”

“Ballet,” Adeline said.

“And you!” Sophia put a finger toward Ursula. “You play field hockey, right? I know I’ve seen you before. And you!” She had reached Elliot, but clearly had no idea who he was, and so she just squinted at him with menace.

“Kane,” Elliot said gravely. “You have to get her out of here. And we can’t let her remember any of this.”

Kane moved between them. His anger was instant, rising in him just as a flare of etherea rose from his hand.

“If you touch my sister, I will kill you.”

Elliot’s eyes filled with fear as he backed away.

“Kane, we don’t have time for this. Think about what you’re doing.”

“I am thinking about it. And I wouldn’t have let you guys erase my sister’s memory the first time if I’d been able to think about it then, but—oh wait! I was in a fucking coma, or did you forget your little plan?”

Elliot’s jaw worked, his eyes never leaving the light in Kane’s fist. The whispering was all around them now, a roar slowly saturating the air.

“Sophia, you need to run,” Kane commanded. For once, she listened, darting out of the garden and back toward the street.

“We’ll leave her,” Elliot said. “We promise. But right now we need to get out of here, too.”

Kane dropped the fire, letting the light burrow into the thickening grass. He took deep breaths, caught between wanting to run away with his sister and needing to follow through on his original goal. He had been right. The next reverie had come to East Amity, and it had found its home in Helena Quigley. They were the only people who knew, and they were the only people who could save her from whatever horror had just burst from her head.