When Villains Rise
Chapters (52)
- Copyright
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Acknowledgments
- Read More from the Market of Monsters Series
- More Books from HMH Teen
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH on Social Media
Copyright
Copyright © 2020 by Rebecca Schaeffer
All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to [email protected] or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.
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Cover design by Sharismar Rodriguez
Cover art © 2020 by Will Staehle
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schaeffer, Rebecca, author.
Title: When villains rise / Rebecca Schaeffer.
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020] | Series: [Market of monsters ; 3] | Audience: Ages 14 and up. | Audience: Grades 10–12. |
Summary: With her best friend, Kovit’s, life in danger, Nita is determined to take down the black market once and for all.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054998 (print) | LCCN 2019054999 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328863560 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781328863614 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Monsters—Fiction. | Supernatural—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Black market—Fiction. | Horror stories.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S33557 Whe 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.S33557 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
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Dedication
To all those who seize their own future,
whatever it takes
One
NITA STARED at the cell phone screen, her eyes wide and her mind still trying to process what she was reading.
It was eerily silent all around her. Normally, she never noticed the sounds of Toronto, the roar of cars, the hum of air-conditioning units, the honks and shouts and creaks of life. But she certainly noticed their absence when the soundproofing blocked them out. It made her uneasy.
Her breathing was short and fast as she reread the email. But the words didn’t change, and the truth they told her didn’t either.
Henry, Kovit’s surrogate father and former employer, had sold Kovit’s information to the International Non-Human Police.
Henry had sent them videos of Kovit as a child torturing people to eat their pain, which would be plenty of evidence to convince INHUP that Kovit was a zannie. As a species on the Dangerous Unnaturals List, he could be killed, and it would be considered preemptive self-defense. He would get no trial. No jury would convict him. No judge would sentence him to prison or community service.
He would just be murdered.
Once the paperwork went through, in one week’s time, his face, his name, his life would go up on an international wanted poster that would be spread across media outlets worldwide. He’d be hunted down, and when he was caught, he would be brutally slaughtered.
In one week’s time, Kovit, Nita’s best friend and only ally, was going to die.
Nita clenched the phone in her sweaty palm, and then angrily shoved it in her pocket, as if pushing the phone and its incriminating emails out of sight would somehow make the terrible truth go away.