by Kit Colter
“So,” Derek said, “where to, Killer?”
Erin realized he was speaking to her. Killer. She didn’t know how to feel or what to think about that. She didn’t want to think about that. She just wanted it to be over.
“Home. I want to go home.”
Acknowledgements
I have received assistance of nearly every imaginable kind over the course of this project, and a full accounting of my gratitude might constitute of book of its own. Instead, I’ve composed a list of people who should know, if they don’t already, that they are the most inspiring, most supportive, and most talented people I know. These people:
—committed a multitude of quasi-miraculous technical feats and tirelessly relayed all manner of top secret info: Meagan, Ginger, BT, Bryson, Iracema, Janett, Tony, Becca, Jonathan.
—encouraged, assisted, and inspired the hell out of me: Amy, Don, Laughing Crow, Joan, Erin, Darynda.
—loaned me his superhuman focus: 7.
—and, lastly, suffered through the cataclysm more commonly known as revision with both grace and style: Casey and Alan, to whom I owe my existence as a writer.
A Letter to the Reader
Thank you. The choice to invest your time, attention, and energy in a story that I wrote is an extraordinary compliment. Reading a novel is an exercise in trust. You let a stranger lead the way into a different world, and I am grateful you took a chance on this book and this writer.
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About the Author
Kit Colter started writing Catwoman fanfiction in first grade and never looked back. Her spelling has gotten better since then, and somewhere along the way she discovered the true power of the comma, but she is still writing for the same reason she started: an all-consuming love for the art of storytelling.
Kit lives in New Mexico on the edge of the Rio Grande. She has a Master's degree in English, wrote her thesis on speculative fiction, and is currently working toward her PhD.
www.kitcolter.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
Acknowledgements
A Letter to the Reader
About the Author
Copyright
Nine Lives is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and events are products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2017 Kit Colter
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by SunSpider Press.
Cover Design by Rachelle Gould-Harris
ISBN: 0-9989783-0-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-9989783-0-7
First Edition: May 2017.
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