All That Lives Must Die - Eric Nylund [0]
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ALL THAT LIVES
MUST DIE
ERIC NYLUND
BOOK TWO IN THE MORTAL COILS SERIES
A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK
Table of Contents
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
Section I: The First Day of School
1 New Rules
2 Circles of Power And Regret
3 Entrance Exam
4 What We Do Best
5 Placement And Displacement
6 Not A Popularity Contest
7 The Fool’s Opening Move
8 Tour
9 Ludus Magnus
10 The Gates of Perdition
11 Borderlands
12 Hero-In-Training
13 Just The Start
Section II: Rigors of Academic Life
14 Blood Pedigree
15 The Truth Will Hurt
16 Breakfast Special
17 Friends and Enemies
18 The Unprepared Test
19 Team Scarab’s First Match
20 Little White Lie
21 Unexpected Rendezvous
22 A Problem Never Meant to be Solved
23 Shopping For Trouble
Section III: Adversaries
24 First Step on a Crooked Path
25 Stones That Weep
26 The Battle of Ultima Thule
27 A Wrong Turn
28 Shadow Legion
29 Deception By Moonlight
30 Captain
31 What Mattered to Eliot
32 Boy Trouble
33 Three Words That Changed Her Life
34 Outsider
Section IV: Freshman Midterms
35 Father–Daughter Chat
36 Cramming For The Midterm
37 Pre-Test Jitters
38 Midterm Maze
39 Two Against One
40 Grudge Match
41 Expelled
42 Consequences Be Damned
43 A Match
44 Infiltration
45 Shadows, Honey, and Blood
46 Conclusion Most Dire
47 Tipped Balance
Section V: The Semester of Fire And Blood
48 When There Were Still Lots of Options
49 Electives
50 No Match for his Charm and Intellect
51 No More Just Friends
52 Audition of Stars
53 Challenge
54 Music to End the World if Thou Desire
55 Underestimation of his Cunning
56 Two More Pieces in Play
57 How to Foil a Death Trap
Section VI: Ditching
58 Performance
59 Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
60 The Trouble With Truancy
61 What Little Girls Are Made of
62 Collateral Damage
63 Wolf Under the Waves
64 First Time in the Headmistress’s Office
65 A Very Long Distance Call
66 One Thing Almost Everyone had Forgotten
67 The Biggest Lie of His Life
68 Not a Time to Be Coy
69 Betrayal At The Gates of Perdition
Section VII: War is Hell
70 Missteps in the Blasted Lands
71 The Heroic Stand of Amanda Lane
72 The Tower Grave
73 Dux Bellorum
74 Underlying Darkness
75 Broken Hearts of Hell
76 Last Moments Together
77 Tide of Battle
78 Just the two of them
79 One in a Million
80 The Last Moment When Everything was Still Possible
81 Infernal Lord
Section VIII: Graduation
82 Second Time in the Headmistress’s Office
83 Last-Minute Details for Armageddon
84 Cycle of Violence
85 Ceremonies
86 All that Lives Must Die
87 Patched
88 The Storm that None Survive
89 No Rest for the Wicked
90 The Long Walk Home
Reader’s Guide
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
ALL THAT LIVES MUST DIE
Copyright © 2010 by Eric Nylund
Reader’s Guide copyright © 2010 by Eric Nylund
All rights reserved.
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ISBN 978-0-7653-2304-0
First Edition: July 2010
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For Syne, the passion of my life and the one woman
I’d go to Hell and battle the Legions of the Damned for
&
For Kai, your father promises he will never make you
go to the Paxington Institute (unless you want to)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My gratitude to the following people for their help, confidence, and being some of the best friends a writer could have: Richard Curtis, Tom Doherty, Alexis Ortega, Eric Raab, and John Sutherland.
EDITOR’S NOTE
We at Tor have received numerous requests to publish