Dan Wells

Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins)


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      Partials series 1-3

      Partials

      Fragments

      Ruins

      Dan Wells

      HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Partials

      Text Copyright © 2012 by HarperCollinsPublishers Jacket art © 2012 by Craig Shields. Photo of girl © 2012 by Howard Huang. Jacket design by Alison Klapthor. Typography by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2012 Fragments Text Copyright © 2013 by HarperCollinsPublishers Jacket art © 2013 by Craig Shields. Photo of couple © 2013 by Howard Huang. Jacket design by Alison Klapthor. Ruins Text copyright © 2014 by HarperCollinsPublishers Jacket art © 2014 Craig Shields. Photo of girl © 2014 by Howard Huang. Jacket design by Alison Klapthor.

      Dan Wells asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.

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      Source ISBNs:

      9780007465224

      9780007465231

      9780007465248

      Ebook Edition © September 2014 ISBN: 9780008106072

      Version: 2019-01-15

      Contents

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       COPYRIGHT

       PARTIALS

       FRAGMENTS

       RUINS

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       Dedication

      This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

      Contents

       Title Page

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Part 3 - Four Hours Later

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Chapter Thirty

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Chapter Thirty-Two

      Chapter Thirty-Three

      Chapter Thirty-Four

      Chapter Thirty-Five

      Chapter Thirty-Six

      Chapter Thirty-Seven

      Chapter Thirty-Eight

      Chapter Thirty-Nine

      Acknowledgments

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      Newborn #485GA18M died on June 30, 2076, at 6:07 in the morning. She was three days old. The average lifespan of a human child, in the time since the Break, was fifty-six hours.

      They didn’t even name them anymore.

      Kira Walker looked on helplessly while Dr. Skousen examined the tiny body. The nurses—half of them pregnant as well—recorded the details of its life and death, faceless in bodysuits and gas masks. The mother wailed despondently from the hallway, muffled by the glass. Ariel McAdams, barely eighteen years old. The mother of a corpse.

      “Core temperature ninety-nine degrees at birth,” said a nurse, scrolling through the thermometer readout. Her voice was tinny through the mask; Kira didn’t know her name. Another nurse carefully transcribed the numbers on a sheet of yellow paper. “Ninety-eight