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Rituals

Kelley Armstrong
Chapters (65)
  1. Cover
  2. Other Titles
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CAPRICIOUS
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT
  15. CHAPTER NINE
  16. CHAPTER TEN
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE
  19. IN THE CARDS
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY
  28. LOVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  37. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  38. PHONE ISSUES
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY
  40. BONDING
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  46. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  47. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  48. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  49. SACRILEGE
  50. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  55. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  56. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  57. DEATH BY HELL-BIRD
  58. THE DARKNESS
  59. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  60. FINALLY
  61. THE PACT
  62. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  63. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  64. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  65. About the Author

Cover

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Other Titles

Also by Kelley Armstrong

THE CAINSVILLE SERIES

Omens

Visions

Deceptions

Betrayals

THE CITY OF THE LOST SERIES

City of the Lost

A Darkness Absolute

THE WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD SERIES

Bitten

Stolen

Dime Store Magic

Industrial Magic

Haunted

Broken

No Humans Involved

Personal Demon

Living with the Dead

Frostbitten

Waking the Witch

Spell Bound

13

THE NADIA STAFFORD SERIES

Exit Strategy

Made to Be Broken

Wild Justice

Title Page

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Copyright

PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

Copyright © 2017 K.L.A. Fricke

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2017 by Random House Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Distributed in Canada and the United States of America by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

Random House Canada and colophon are registered trademarks.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Armstrong, Kelley, author

Rituals / Kelley Armstrong.

(Cainsville)

ISBN 9780345815231

eBook ISBN 9780345815255

I. Title. II. Series: Armstrong, Kelley. Cainsville series.

PS8551.R7637R58 2017  C813′.6  C2017-900462-X

Cover design by Terri Nimmo

Cover image: (moon and tree) © Roy Bishop / Arcangel Images

Text images: (bird silhouette, this page) © Ozmedia, (bird silhouette, p. 479) © Lhfgraphics, (sign) © Clipart Design, all Dreamstime.com

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Dedication

FOR JEFF

CHAPTER ONE

As Gabriel’s Jag tore up the country road, I stared at the house ahead. Flames blazed from every window. An ambulance sat in the driveway, lights flashing. As I saw that, I exhaled. The only witness who could set my father free was in that house, and we’d been terrified we’d finally found her only to lose her again. But the ambulance said otherwise.

That’s when they brought out the stretchers. With body bags.

“Maybe it’s not Imogen,” I said.

Gabriel parked, and as we walked toward the burning house, I surveyed the personnel on duty. I chose my target and picked up speed as Gabriel fell back. We were almost an hour outside Chicago, and these police might be state troopers, but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t know Gabriel by reputation…as one of the city’s most notorious defense lawyers.

I approached the young officer left guarding the perimeter and extended my hand. “Liv Jones. We’ve been looking for one of the women renting this house. Imogen Seale. She’s a material witness in a multiple homicide.”

The trooper peered at me with a Don’t I know you from somewhere look. But it was dark and smoky and tonight I was just Liv Jones. Not Olivia Taylor-Jones, former debutante daughter of the Mills & Jones department store owner. Certainly no relation to Eden Larsen, daughter of notorious serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen.

“Hope she wasn’t a valuable witness,” the trooper said.