by Sable Grace
We would like to thank our amazing agent, Roberta Brown, for believing in a new idea that could have been an enormous pain in her ass. We’d also like to thank the amazing team at Avon Books, most especially Erika Tsang, our fantastic editor, who wasn’t afraid to make us work and believed we could . . . over and over! Amanda Bergeron, thank you for the final thoughts, and the art department and sales team that made us so excited for our debut, we’ve been impossible to be around. We’d also like to thank Detective C.C. Aiple of the St. Augustine Police Department for agreeing to answer any questions we might have while writing this series and for doing the job you do. One last special thanks goes to Hunter Waters for naming Kyana. We hope one day, when you’re old enough to read this stuff, that she does you proud.
About the Author
SABLE GRACE is the writing team of Heather Waters and Laura Barone, long-time critique partners and friends who came together by fluke to discover their voices fit together quite nicely during a writing experiment. The story became far too interesting to put down and Sable Grace was born.
Both Heather and Laura reside in Florida, are happily married to their real-life heroes, and are, well, complete opposites. Still, there’s enough common ground for them to weave their words together in the voice of Sable Grace.
You can reach them both at [email protected] or visit their website at www.sablegrace.com.
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By Sable Grace
Ascension
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
ASCENSION. Copyright © 2011 by Heather Waters and Laura Barone. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition May 2011 ISBN: 9780062079183
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Acknowledgments
About the Author
By Sable Grace
Copyright
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