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HarperVoyager
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2014
Copyright © Kim Harrison 2014
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Cover Illustration © Larry Rostant.
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Source ISBN: 9780007555345
Ebook Edition © September 2014 ISBN: 9780007555352
Version: 2014-08-12
To Tim, the “guy in the leather jacket”
Contents
Neck craned, I squinted up between the shadowed apartments. High in the sun, dragonflylike wings threw back the glow with the transparent sheen of glittery tissue paper. The sporadic traffic at the end of the alley was enough to cover the sound of Jenks’s wings, but I could hear them in my memory as the pixy hovered before a pollution-grimed window.
The moist-dirt smell of damp pavement was a hint under the light but growing scent of frightened vampire coming from near my elbow. I doubted Marsha was having second thoughts, but disobeying your master vampire could have lethal consequences.