by Jody Casella
Simon Pulse
Simon & Schuster, New York
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Casella, Jody.
Thin space / Jody Casella. — Beyond Words/Simon Pulse edition.
pages cm
Summary: Consumed by guilt and secrets about his twin brother’s death, Marsh Windsor is looking for a thin space—a place where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to cross over—in hopes of setting things right.
[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Conduct of life—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction. 5. Twins—Fiction. 6. High schools—Fiction. 7. Schools—Fiction. 8. Dead—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C26772Thi 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2012045691
ISBN 978-1-58270-435-7 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-58270-392-3 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4424-6814-6 (eBook)
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: Now
Chapter 2: Breaking and Entering
Chapter 3: Stranger at the Bus Stop
Chapter 4: I’m In
Chapter 5: Mission
Chapter 6: I’m In, Part Two
Chapter 7: Welcoming Committee
Chapter 8: Wreck
Chapter 9: Truth—Or Something Like It
Chapter 10: Boots
Chapter 11: Something like Normal Life
Chapter 12: More Freaking Reality
Chapter 13: Trouble
Chapter 14: Seething
Chapter 15: Break
Chapter 16: Plan B
Chapter 17: Tricks and Lies
Chapter 18: Fun at the Hospital
Chapter 19: Showtime
Chapter 20: Confrontations
Chapter 21: Visitor
Chapter 22: Hiding
Chapter 23: Thin Space
Chapter 24: Brothers
Chapter 25: Truth, Really
Chapter 26: Reality
Acknowledgments
About Jody Casella