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Richard Lange
Chapters (42)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. 1
  7. 2
  8. 3
  9. 4
  10. 5
  11. 6
  12. 7
  13. 8
  14. 9
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  33. 28
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  36. 31
  37. 32
  38. 33
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. Discover More
  41. About the Author
  42. Also by Richard Lange

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2021 by Richard Lange
Cover design by Lucy Kim
Cover photographs: people © Mint Images/Art Wolfe/Getty Images and © Zia Soleil/Getty Images; hand © Shutterstock
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ISBN 978-0-316-54197-8
LCCN 2020951479

E3-20210616-NF-DA-ORI

Dedication

For Kim Turner

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

—Bram Stoker, Dracula

Epigraph

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Night is a world lit by itself.

—Antonio Porchia

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J​ESSE DREAMS THE OLD DREAM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS. He hasn’t been sleeping much lately, and when he has, he hasn’t dreamed. On bad days he lies there for hours, tossing and turning; on good ones he drops his lids and dies until the sun goes down. Today, though, one minute he’s staring up at the water-stained ceiling of the motel room, listening to the maid argue with the manager out in the parking lot, listening to Edgar snore on the other bed, and the next, the dream! It reappears like a friend he hadn’t known how much he missed until, hey, there he was again, the rascal. It’s the only dream he dreams, so he’s fond of it. It’s the only time the world isn’t just what it is.