“You want to go back?”
“Just let me out here,” I said. I hopped down.
“What was all that back there?” he asked.
“You’ll see it on the news,” I said. “Look for the name Brooke Watson.” I started walking away.
“What about you?”
I turned around, walking backward away from him. “The police are going to ask where you left me,” I said. “Probably the FBI, too. Tell them I said hi.”
I turned back around and walked away. I passed through the town I grew up in, wondering who might recognize me, what they might do. No one even looked. I was a drifter, here one minute and gone the next. I passed the school, empty in the summer; I passed the old apartments where my sister used to live. I passed Marci’s house, still overgrown with trees and plants, and saw her little sister playing on the sidewalk, drawing pictures with thick sticks of colored chalk. I stopped half a block away and watched her. I couldn’t see what she was drawing. I turned the corner and moved on. I passed the wood plant, and jumped a fence to the rail yard, and climbed aboard an empty flatbed as the train headed out for another load of logs.
The city disappeared behind me, and the wind whistled secrets in my ears.
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Over Your Dead Body
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DAN WELLS lives in North Salt Lake, Utah, with his wife, Dawn, and their five children. He is the author of four previous novels about John Wayne Cleaver, The Hollow City, and the popular Partials Sequence of young adult books. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY
Copyright © 2016 by Dan Wells
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First Edition: May 2016