The Second Death

by T. Frohock

  For the usual suspects who read the manuscript, sometimes two and three times, and caught my many errors: Anne Lippin, Peter Cooper, and Glinda Harrison for all of their outstanding comments and guidance.

  Thanks to Mark Lawrence, ML Brennan, Courtney Schafer, Mazarkis Williams, Alex Bledsoe, and Helen Lowe for their support.

  To the most marvelous Mia for your fabulous help with cover copy. Your clear insight and excellent advice made a seemingly insurmountable job fun!

  To my dear friend Lisa Cantrell for all of our Friday afternoons.

  I’d also like to thank the unsung hero of all three of these novellas: Jenny Klion, my copy editor. If you found grammatical error, it’s because I didn’t heed her advice.

  Special thanks goes to David Pomerico for his excellent editorial direction on all of the stories in this series: I’m very lucky to have such an excellent editor.

  Most special thanks to Marlene Stringer, my literary agent, who keeps telling me to write something new, and so I will.

  And thanks goes to the most important ­people of all: you, the reader. Without you, all of this wouldn’t be half as much fun as it is.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  T. FROHOCK has turned her love of dark fantasy and horror into tales of deliciously creepy fiction. She currently lives in North Carolina, where she has long been accused of telling stories, which is a southern colloquialism for lying. Check out more of her works and news at www.tfrohock.com.

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  Also by T. Frohock

  Los Nefilim

  In Midnight’s Silence: Los Nefilim: Part One

  Without Light or Guide: Los Nefilim: Part Two

  The Second Death: Los Nefilim: Part Three

  Hisses and Wings: A Novelette, by Alex Bledsoe and T. Frohock

  (featuring Bledsoe’s Tufa and Frohock’s Los Nefilim)

  The Broken Road: A Novella

  Miserere: An Autumn Tale

  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.

  THE SECOND DEATH. Copyright © 2016 by T. Frohock. All rights reserved under International and Pan-­American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-­book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of Harper­Collins e-­books.

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