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Over Your Dead Body

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by Dan Wells


  “You want to go back?”

  “Just let me out here,” I said. I hopped down.

  “What was all that back there?” he asked.

  “You’ll see it on the news,” I said. “Look for the name Brooke Watson.” I started walking away.

  “What about you?”

  I turned around, walking backward away from him. “The police are going to ask where you left me,” I said. “Probably the FBI, too. Tell them I said hi.”

  I turned back around and walked away. I passed through the town I grew up in, wondering who might recognize me, what they might do. No one even looked. I was a drifter, here one minute and gone the next. I passed the school, empty in the summer; I passed the old apartments where my sister used to live. I passed Marci’s house, still overgrown with trees and plants, and saw her little sister playing on the sidewalk, drawing pictures with thick sticks of colored chalk. I stopped half a block away and watched her. I couldn’t see what she was drawing. I turned the corner and moved on. I passed the wood plant, and jumped a fence to the rail yard, and climbed aboard an empty flatbed as the train headed out for another load of logs.

  The city disappeared behind me, and the wind whistled secrets in my ears.

  TOR BOOKS BY DAN WELLS

  I Am Not a Serial Killer

  Mr. Monster

  I Don’t Want to Kill You

  The Hollow City

  The Devil’s Only Friend

  Over Your Dead Body

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  DAN WELLS lives in North Salt Lake, Utah, with his wife, Dawn, and their five children. He is the author of four previous novels about John Wayne Cleaver, The Hollow City, and the popular Partials Sequence of young adult books. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Epigraph

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Tor Books by Dan Wells

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  OVER YOUR DEAD BODY

  Copyright © 2016 by Dan Wells

  All rights reserved.

  Cover design by Peter Lutjen

  Cover photographs by Shutterstock

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  ISBN 978-0-7653-8068-5 (hardcover)

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  First Edition: May 2016

 

 

 


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