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into the sealed-up room a blast of cool night air. I listened. I heard the branches creak against one another in the wind, and then, coming from my mother’s house, I heard voices and saw dark shadows armed with flashlights spread out across our lawn and enter my father’s workshop.

I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.

“She’s not here!” I heard a policeman yell. “There’s no sign of her.”

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE BLOOD:

BENDER, COOPER, DUNOW, GOLD

THE CIRCLE:

Barclay, Doyle, Elworthy, Fain, Goff, Muchnick, Nurnberg, Pietsch, Snyder

THE UNEXPECTED:

Charman

THE MASTER MECHANICS:

Bronstein, MacDonald, Schultz

THE CITADEL:

The MacDowell Colony

WILD CARD:

Wessel and the Italian Contingent

WILD DOG:

Lilly (woof!)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alice Sebold is the author of the #1 bestsellers The Lovely Bones, a novel, and Lucky, a memoir. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold.

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FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR