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Chapters (63)
  1. Dedication
  2. Map
  3. A Note to the Reader
  4. PART ONE
  5. The Keeper
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. PART TWO
  16. The Keeper
  17. Chapter Ten
  18. Chapter Eleven
  19. Chapter Twelve
  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. Chapter Twenty-one
  29. PART THREE
  30. The Keeper
  31. Chapter Twenty-two
  32. Chapter Twenty-three
  33. Chapter Twenty-four
  34. Chapter Twenty-five
  35. Chapter Twenty-six
  36. Chapter Twenty-seven
  37. Chapter Twenty-eight
  38. Chapter Twenty-nine
  39. PART FOUR
  40. The Keeper
  41. Chapter Thirty
  42. Chapter Thirty-one
  43. Chapter Thirty-two
  44. Chapter Thirty-three
  45. Chapter Thirty-four
  46. Chapter Thirty-five
  47. Chapter Thirty-six
  48. Chapter Thirty-seven
  49. Chapter Thirty-eight
  50. Chapter Thirty-nine
  51. Chapter Forty
  52. Chapter Forty-one
  53. PART FIVE
  54. The Keeper
  55. Chapter Forty-two
  56. Chapter Forty-three
  57. Chapter Forty-four
  58. Chapter Forty-five
  59. Cast of Characters
  60. Acknowledgments
  61. About the Author
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Yes! said Giddon. We’re trying! But we don’t understand! Stop whom?

And then the silbercows’ messages faded, because they turned suddenly, streaking off to the north.

Wait! said Giddon. Whom should we stop? What are they doing?

“Did you hear what they said?” said Hava breathlessly, beside him.

“Yes. They want help,” he said.

“Did you see the house, the airship, and the explosion? The boat with the bodies?”

“Yes. And an imaginary Keeper too, which was confusing.”

“We need to get into that locked room,” said Hava. “The house they showed us could be this house.”

“Or any number of houses,” said Giddon. “The Cavendas have a house on a cliff in the north. A lot of people have houses on cliffs.”

“Sure, but we’re literally standing in one right now, Giddon. A house with secrets, and a locked room.”

Something was still wrenching inside Giddon at the loss of the silbercows. Something about them had made him want to understand them so badly, but now they were gone. He gripped the railing, frustrated. “I agree we should get into that room,” he said. “But we have a lot of questions to answer. The answers won’t all be in that room. Mikka and Brek found something in the north.” Mikka and Brek. What a nightmare, to be locked inside a cabin while one’s ship sank. What a horrible way to die.

“I’m going to avenge them,” said Giddon. “For Bitterblue.”

“Of course you are,” said Hava. “I am too. But heads up, because that looks like Quona’s airship.” She pointed north, where a dot had appeared in the sky.

“I hope not,” said Giddon. “She said she might be gone all night. It’s barely afternoon.”

“I think we should start paying more attention to what she says,” said Hava, “and how well it matches up with what she does. Now, let’s get inside before she sees us.”

Chapter Twenty

On the night of the prime minister’s gala, a week after her parents’ dinner party, Lovisa arrived at the Keep with two questions. First, had her mother brought her fox to the party, or left him at home? Second—if the fox was indeed at the party—whom could she use as a decoy, to sneak home?

The entrance hall was alive with noise and color. Above her, the glass dome of the Keep disappeared into darkness, making her wish for quiet, solitude, the stars.