Lastly, to Clementine, who was born a month before Karou (though Karou gestated longer), and who has known her all her life. Thanks for being a little trooper, always, best kid in the world.

Contents

COVER

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

1. NIGHTMARE ICE CREAM

2. THE ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL + 3 HOURS

3. CHOICE OF LIFE SKILLS

4. A BEGINNING

5. GETTING-ACQUAINTED GAME

6. BEAST EXODUS

7. A GIFT FROM THE WILD

8. BRUISE THE SKY

ARRIVAL + 6 HOURS

9. LANDFALL

10. TILT TO PANIC

ARRIVAL + 12 HOURS

11. BREEDS OF SILENCE

12. A WARM IDEA

13. TOGETHER

14. THE LONGEST FIVE MINUTES IN HISTORY

ARRIVAL + 18 HOURS

15. FAMILIAR TERROR

16. WHAT PROMISES ARE WORTH

17. HOPE, DYING UNSURPRISED

18. A CANDLE FLAME EXTINGUISHED BY A SCREAM

19. THE HUNT

20. WARP

21. NITID’S HANDS

22. THE ABYSS’S MAD GAWK

23. THE WHOLE POINT

24. CUE APOCALYPSE

ARRIVAL + 24 HOURS

25. YOU, PLURAL

26. BLEED AND BLOOM

27. JUST CREATURES IN A WORLD

28. ANGEL-LOVER, BEAST-LOVER

29. A DREAM COME TRUE

30. NEARER AND TOUCHING

31. THE OPPOSITE OF SURVIVAL

32. CAKE FOR LATER

ARRIVAL + 36 HOURS

33. LIKE AN ALIEN INVASION

34. THINGS KNOWN AND BURIED

35. THRICE-FALLEN

36. THE ONLY NON-IDIOT ON THE PLANET

37. PREOCCUPIED BY BLISS

38. AN EXCELLENT ACCIDENT OF STARDUST

39. SCION

40. ASSUME THE WORST

41. UNKNOWNS

ARRIVAL + 48 HOURS

42. THE WORST

43. FIRE IN THE SKY

44. THIS JUST IN

45. CATS OUT OF BAGS

46. PIE AND DANDELIONS

47. THE BOOK OF ELAZAEL

48. HUNGRY

49. AN OFFER OF PATRONAGE

50. HAPPINESS HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE

51. ABSCOND

ARRIVAL + 60 HOURS

52. GUNPOWDER AND DECAY

53. EYEBROW MASTER CLASS

54. FAKE GRANDMOTHER

55. LUNATIC POETRY

56. MY SWEET BARBARIAN

57. FED TO THE LIONS

58. THE WRONG UGLINESS

59. SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY

60. NO ONE DIES TODAY

61. SUPERPOWERS WILLY-NILLY

62. THE AGE OF WARS

63. AT THE EDGE OF A KNIFE

64. PERSUASION

65. CHOSEN

66. SO MUCH MORE THAN SAVED

67. A SPRAY OF SPARKS

68. FALLEN

ARRIVAL + 72 HOURS

69. DON’T LET THE SKY-FLAP THINGY HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT

70. WHITE NO LONGER

71. ABSENCE

72. THE SEVERAL DAYS’ EMPEROR

73. A BUTTERFLY IN A BOTTLE

74. CHAPTER ONE

75. WANT

76. WAITING FOR MAGIC

77. WE HAVEN’T BEEN INTRODUCED

78. (BREATHE)

79. LEGENDS

80. A CHOICE

81. THE WISH POLICE

82. ABERRATION

83. MOST THINGS THAT MATTER

84. THE CATACLYSM

85. AN ENDING

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

COPYRIGHT

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Laini Taylor

Cover photo illustration by Sammy Yuen

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Cover design by Alison Impey

Cover © 2014 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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First ebook edition: April 2014

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