And thank you to you, the reader. Thank you for reading, for writing me to tell me what you thought; thank you for your fanart, for your costumes, for your fanfic (which I can’t read, but I still enjoy knowing it exists somewhere out there on the big wide Internet), for everything. Thank you for making these words possible. Thank you for trusting me enough to let me lead you into these woods; thank you for trusting me to lead you out again.
I promise I will always do my best to be worthy of that trust.
BY MIRA GRANT
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Introduction
Countdown
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
All the Pretty Little Horses
Coming to You Live
Acknowledgments
Also by Mira Grant
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Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Seanan McGuire
Countdown copyright © 2011 by Seanan McGuire
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats copyright © 2012 by Seanan McGuire
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea copyright © 2013 by Seanan McGuire
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell copyright © 2014 by Seanan McGuire
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus copyright © 2015 by Seanan McGuire
“Everglades” copyright © 2015 by Seanan McGuire
All the Pretty Horses copyright © 2016 by Seanan McGuire
Coming to You Live copyright © 2016 by Seanan McGuire
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016904482
ISBNs: 978-0-316-30958-5 (hardcover), 978-0-316-30956-1 (ebook)
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