But even as he tugged his thick black pea coat closer, he knew it was no use. He braced himself against the biting gale off the water. There was no violet to his eyes now at all he could feel it. His eyes were as gray as the thick fog enveloping the Sausalito shoreline, as the choppy water lapping the pebble beach beneath his feet. GEORGE HERBERT, Easter Wings 4 PROLOGUE NEUTRAL WATERS Daniel stared out at the bay. Contents Cover Other Books by this Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Epigraph Prologue - Neutral Waters Chapter 1 - Eighteen Days Chapter 2 - Seventeen Days Chapter 3 - Sixteen Days Chapter 4 - Fifteen Days Chapter 5 - Fourteen Days Chapter 6 - Thirteen Days Chapter 7 - Twelve Days Chapter 8 - Eleven Days Chapter 9 Ten Days Chapter 10 - Nine Days Chapter 11 - Eight Days Chapter 12 - Seven Days Chapter 13 - Six Days Chapter 14 - Five Days Chapter 15 - Four Days Chapter 16 - Three Days Chapter 17 - Two Days Chapter 18 - Thanksgiving Chapter 19 - The Truce is Broken Epilogue - Pandemonium About the Author 3 For, if I imp my wing on thine Affliction shall advance the flight in me. To my family in Texas, Arkansas, Baltimore, and Florida for so much exuberance and love. To my friends, who keep me sane and inspired. Your wit and encouragement make you almost too much fun to work with. To Michael Stearns and Ted Malawer, tireless geniuses. To my traveling partner Noreen Marchisi, Roshan Nozari, and the rest of the tremendous marketing team at Random House. To Angela Carlino and the design team, for the jacket that could launch a thousand ships. To Krista Vitola, whose good-news emails have made so many of my days.

To Beverly Horowitz for the sharpest pep talk I’ve ever received, and the dessert you stuffed into my purse. To Wendy Loggia, whose belief in this series was a great gift, and who knows just how to make it more like what it always wanted to be. Because of you, I may just have to keep writing forever. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, inexpressible thanks to my readers for all the effusive and generous support. v3.1 2 FOR ELIZABETH, IRDY, ANNE, AND VIC. eISBN: 978-7-7 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Copyright © 2010 by Tinderbox Books, LLC and Lauren Kate All rights reserved. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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