He’s on a bed that’s low to the ground, and beyond its foot he sees the fur of a mountain lion on the slate floor. Beneath him he can feel a smooth and expensive cotton sheet, like the ones he once knew. He’s alone in a large bedroom with blinding-white walls. When he wakes again, his eyes open, but only a sliver. The sound of footsteps recedes, and Lev slips back into darkness. And no one in his family is so informal as to call their mother “Ma.” Who is it who just spoke? Maybe one of his brothers. His throat hurts, his tongue feels like chewed leather, his left wrist aches, and he can’t open his eyes. Mired in a numbing gray fog, Lev feels her cool fingers on his neck, taking his pulse. “Do it for him,” a woman says, her voice quiet but steeped in authority. The text for this book is set in Fairfield.Ībout Neal Schusterman and Michelle Knowlden For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-86 or visit our website at The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Visit the author at and /nealshustermanĪn imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Divisionġ230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020
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