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The wide golden prairie that Lee Scoresby’s ghost had seen briefly through the window was lying quiet under the first sun of morning.Golden, but also yellow, brown, green, and every…

I tore my gaze from the flames. “You’ve done this before, right?””A few times.” “Anyone spend the rest of their days mumbling and drooling? Any former customers sitting in a…

“Fuck me,” I muttered.”I think that’s what he has in mind.” “Now what?” I asked, which seemed to be the question of the week. “Now we keep blasting wolves whenever…

I hurried home to get dressed, where I found a message on my machine from just the man I wanted to see.”Jessie, I went back to the cave last night….

Chapter 32Stefan,” a disembodied voice whispered. I was in the labyrinth back at Veritas, the lush green hedges rising higher than my head, the sun beating down upon my shoulders….

I turned my back to the estate and began walking, then running, on the dirt road into town. Somehow, I felt that my feet barely touched the ground. I ran…

Matt watched in horror as the phantom shook Damon like a rag dol .Elena spun around to lock eyes with Matt and Bonnie. “We have to save him,” she whispered,…

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONEBooty and the Beasts The second time Amy came out of the bedroom, she was dressed in her familiar hiking shorts, flip-flops, and a WHALES ARE OUR PALS T-shirt….

Joseph rubbed the bridge of his nose as if fighting a headache. “He said he’d see what he could do.”We watched as the Roman soldiers took Joshua inside and the…

Thirty-twoCatfish and Estelle “That was a good guitar,” Catfish said. He had his arms around Estelle, who had pressed her face to his chest when the monster attacked Winston Krauss….

32The Missionary Position The guards came for Tucker at sunset, just as he was slipping into the cotton pants and shirt the doctor had left for him. The doctor’s clothes…

Chapter 32All for One, and… Well, You Know They might have been the Magnificent Seven or the Seven Samurai. If each of them had been a trained professional, a gunfighter…

CHAPTER 32A Doctorate in Deception According to Pokey, at the time the white men came, there were seven sacred arrow bundles. Each had been made by four medicine men who…

31GOOD GUYS Augustus Brine, Travis, and Gian Hen Gian were squeezed into the seat of Brine’s pickup. As they approached Effrom and Amanda’s house, they spotted a beige Dodge parked…

“Damon doesn’t mean to be such a – a bastard,”Bonnie said explosively. “He’s just – so often he feels like it’s the three of us against him – and -…

Elena was radiantly happy. She had gone to sleep happy, only to wake up again happy, serene in the knowledge that soon – soon she would visit Stefan, and that…

“Who is it?” a voice was saying from the forest darkness. “Who’s out there?”Bonnie had seldom been as grateful to anyone as she was to Matt for holding on to…

The caves were quiet; the sun had not yet risen. In the big plaza, the mirrors were a pale gray with the coming dawn.My few clothes were still in Jamie…

The Cullens’ enormous house was more crowded with guests than anyone would assume could possibly be comfortable. It only worked out because none of the visitors slept. Mealtimes were dicey,…

Ming’s lungs were screaming for oxygen. He held his breath, still trying to kick toward the surface. Breathe! He fought the reflex, clamping his insensate lips together. Breathe! He tried…