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Chapters (57)
  1. Cover
  2. PRAISE FOR
  3. Dedication
  4. Before
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  54. EPILOGUE
  55. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  56. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  57. What’s next onyour reading list?

“They were waiting to pick off the survivors.” The bombs had only been part of the plan.

“How’d you find us?” Pine loomed close, stance rigid. “How’d you get past Lir’s fleet if you were out east?”

Gloriana shifted her eyes to Pine. “That’s the interesting part—we didn’t have to avoid them. Almost as soon as we’d spotted them, they sailed south, straight out of our path. All we had to do was wait them out. Probably helped that we looked like one of them.”

That was enough to rekindle a small flame of hope in Caledonia. If the larger Bullet fleet had moved off so soon, maybe more of her people had made it out of Cloudbreak; maybe they’d survived. And if they’d survived, they would find their way to the rendezvous.

“What happened to the Arrow Sweet?” Caledonia asked.

“We ran into trouble in the southern seas,” Gloriana said with a shrug. “Had to make do with what we could hunt.”

“But why pull his ships away?” Pisces asked, still chewing on Gloriana’s report. “He had us. Why sail before finishing the job?”

“To respond to a bigger threat?” Caledonia said, though she couldn’t fathom what that might be.

“It’s what we were returning to report when we encountered the fleet.” Gloriana gave a tight smile, then tipped her head forward. “Fivesons Venn and Decker are dead as rumored, but turns out Tassos is alive and well, and he still controls the Net.”

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

For the remainder of the short trip to the Bone Mouth, Caledonia settled into a strange kind of peace. Knowing that Tassos had survived Lir’s assassination attempt meant little to her on the surface. She didn’t know Tassos, but she did know that in failing to kill him, Lir had created another enemy. One who was situated between Lir and Caledonia.

It was a strange kind of comfort, but for the moment, it was all she had.

The Bone Mouth came into view at dusk. The archipelago didn’t surge out of the water so much as it appeared to be slowly melting into it. The islands crumbled toward the horizon, making smaller and smaller splotches against the dimming sky, and to Caledonia and Pisces, they looked a little like home.