Early to Death, Early to Rise - Kim Harrison [73]
Another worry was put to rest, and when Paul went to step out, I blurted, “Thank you for stopping Ace.”
Head cocked, he smiled to show his teeth. “You’re welcome.”
From downstairs, my dad shouted for me, and I shifted from foot to foot. “I gotta go,” I said, tossing my head to the shower steaming behind me.
“Me too,” he said, stepping over my windowsill and onto the roof.
“Do you like Ron?” I asked suddenly, and he hesitated, searching the corners of my room with his gaze.
“I don’t know,” he said softly. “He teaches me stuff, but it’s like he’s fanatic about you.”
His eyes found mine, and I nodded. “He lied to me. A lot. I made him look bad in front of a seraph. You going to keep believing everything he says?”
Paul didn’t answer, ducking his head and smiling. “See you later,” he said, and then the shadows from the tree branches shifting on him seemed to erase him bit by bit until he was gone.
I stood for a moment to be sure he had left. “I have got to learn how to do that,” I whispered, then went to take my shower.
Ace becomes a musician, eh?I thought, smiling as I imagined how it must rankle Ron that I—a dark timekeeper—had shown the lost a new choice, and that that choice had been made because of our efforts, saving not only his soul, but his life.
Had it all been fate? Or sweet reaper justice?
About the Author
New York Timesbestselling author KIM HARRISON was born and raised in the upper Midwest but has since fled south to better avoid snow. She spends her time tending orchids, cooking with some guy in a leather jacket, and training her dog. Her current vices include good chocolate and exquisite sushi. Kim is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel ONCE DEAD, TWICE SHY, her young adult debut, as well as the bestselling Hollows series, and she contributed to the paranormal collection PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL. You can visit her online at www.kimharrison.net.
Also by KIM HARRISON:
Once Dead, Twice Shy
Credits
Jacket art © 2010 by Gustavo Marx / MergeLeft Reps, Inc.
Jacket design by Alison Klapthor
Copyright
EARLY TO DEATH, EARLY TO RISE. Copyright © 2010 by Kim Harrison. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harrison, Kim.
Early to death, early to rise / by Kim Harrison.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
ISBN 978-0-06-171817-5
[1. Dead—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Future life—Fiction. 4. Fate and fatalism—Fiction. 5. Supernatural—Fiction. 6. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.H2526On 2009 2009026331
[Fic]—dc22
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199589-7
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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