Seth C. Adams

If You Go Down to the Woods


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      If You Go Down to the Woods

      SETH C. ADAMS

      

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      KillerReads

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      Copyright © Adam Contreras 2018

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Cover illustrations © Shutterstock.com

      Adam Contreras asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © April 2018 ISBN: 9780008280246

      Version: 2019-05-13

       Dedication

      This story is about family, friends, and a good dog (which qualifies as both!), and so it is to these I dedicate the novel.

      To Mom and Dad, for allowing—and encouraging—their weird son to read whatever he wanted.

      To my own group of Outsiders that enriched my life throughout the school years. We may have never fought off assassins and gangsters, but sometimes just surviving life is a fight all its own, made a bit easier with a good group of pals.

      To Sheba, Rusty, Outlaw, and Banjo: great dogs, and even better friends.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Part One: The Promise

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

      

       Chapter Four

      

       Chapter Five

      

       Part Two: The Car and the Collector

      

       Chapter Six

      

       Chapter Seven

      

       Chapter Eight

      

       Part Three: This is the Night

      

       Chapter Nine

      

       Chapter Ten

      

       Chapter Eleven

      

       Chapter Twelve

      

       Chapter Thirteen

      

       Keep Reading…

      

       Acknowledgements

      

       About the Author

      

       About the Publisher

PART ONE

       CHAPTER ONE

      1.

       This is the night. These are the times.

      I heard these words for the first time from a killer the summer I met the Outsiders’ Club. Years passed before I finally understood them and, by then, everyone—my friends, my family, my dog—were long gone: some to the dirt that eventually claims us all,