Contents

Epigraph

Chapter One

The woman smelled smoke in her dreams.

Chapter Two

Nothing less than the death of Frederick Brimley’s three-hundred-year-old family…

Chapter Three

The first thing the woman noticed, before opening her eyes,…

Chapter Four

While Lannes could not in good conscience disagree with the…

Chapter Five

The lights were off in Frederick’s room when the woman…

Chapter Six

Orwell Price lived in a gritty little neighborhood on the…

Chapter Seven

This is the way he goes, whispered a voice. And…

Chapter Eight

Ten minutes after the woman’s breathing slowed, Lannes left the…

Chapter Nine

The woman drove for a long time. She headed south…

Chapter Ten

Waking was the hard part. Dreaming, unfortunately, was not.

Chapter Eleven

Though the woman remembered nothing of her life before waking…

Chapter Twelve

It was 1950, and Lannes was twenty years old the…

Chapter Thirteen

There are over five million miles of paved road in…

Chapter Fourteen

The old man called himself Ed. He had to finish…

Chapter Fifteen

Lethe was in the shower when she felt a tremor…

Chapter Sixteen

They took nothing with them except Lethe’s new clothes. Just…

Chapter Seventeen

My luck, Lethe thought, well and truly sucks.

Chapter Eighteen

It took several hours to take care of Ed. His…

Chapter Nineteen

It seemed like a fairly complicated problem to Lethe—how to…

Chapter Twenty

He took a risk and decided to fly back to…

Chapter Twenty-One

The trees were full of crows. Lethe noticed that almost…

Epilogue

New York. Upper East Side. It was snowing early for…

Acknowledgments

Praise

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