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by Peter Clines


  Thom gave me so much information about submarines I felt guilty not using more of it. Marcus answered random questions about military terminology at all hours.

  The Eden garden is loosely based off the Sepulveda Garden Center just north of Los Angeles. I spent many hours walking back and forth through the garden plots, occasionally asking questions of different folks, and getting answers that ranged from enthusiastic to mildly horrified. There were also a few odd looks as I bounced myself against the back fence again and again.

  Any mistakes or flaws are entirely my own, some deliberate for narrative reasons and some because I wasn’t clever enough to understand what was being explained to me.

  David and John both looked at an early draft and caught a lot of things that my outline-scarred eyes could no longer see.

  My agent, David, set things up so I could continue the Ex series with a little break to write The Fold.

  My editor, Julian, is clearly the most patient man in the publishing industry. He forced his way through a barely-over-the-outline-breakup draft of this book, then gave me a chance to turn it into the (hopefully) much more entertaining book you’re holding.

  Finally, many thanks to my lovely lady, Colleen, who reads early drafts, indulges my long rants with absolutely no references, puts up with my whining and anxiety, makes sure I don’t forget anything, and somehow sees all of this as some kind of a positive in her life. No, I don’t know how, either. But I’m very thankful and happy for it.

  —P.C.

  Los Angeles, October 21, 2015

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  Table of Contents

  Other Titles

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Contents

  A Quick Note About Time

  Prologue: Now

  Survivor’s Guilt: Then

  Chapter Two: Now

  Chapter Three: Now

  Chapter Four: Now

  Chapter Five: Now

  Chapter Six: Now

  Chapter Seven: Now

  Chapter Eight: Now

  Chapter Nine: Now

  Chapter Ten: Now

  Chapter Eleven: Now

  Point of View: Then

  Chapter Thirteen: Now

  Chapter Fourteen: Now

  Chapter Fifteen: Now

  The Honeymoon Is Over: Then

  Chapter Seventeen: Now

  Chapter Eighteen: Now

  Chapter Nineteen: Now

  Chapter Twenty: Now

  Opportunity Rocks: Then

  Chapter Twenty-two: Now

  Chapter Twenty-three: Now

  Chapter Twenty-four: Now

  Chapter Twenty-five: Now

  Chapter Twenty-six: Now

  Chapter Twenty-seven: Now

  Chapter Twenty-eight: Now

  Chapter Twenty-nine: Now

  Chapter Thirty: Now

  Making the Tough Call: Then

  Epilogue: Now

  Acknowledgments

 

 

 


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