There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the door.
ALSO BY SEANAN MCGUIRE
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Sparrow Hill Road
Deadlands: Boneyard
THE WAYWARD CHILDREN SERIES
Every Heart a Doorway
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
THE OCTOBER DAYE SERIES
Rosemary and Rue
A Local Habitation
An Artificial Night
Late Eclipses
One Salt Sea
Ashes of Honor
Chimes at Midnight
The Winter Long
A Red-Rose Chain
Once Broken Faith
The Brightest Fell
THE INCRYPTID SERIES
Discount Armageddon
Midnight Blue-Light Special
Half-Off Ragnarok
Pocket Apocalypse
Chaos Choreography
Magic for Nothing
Tricks for Free
THE INDEXING SERIES
Indexing
Indexing: Reflections
AS MIRA GRANT
THE NEWSFLESH SERIES
Feed
Deadline
Blackout
Feedback
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection (short stories)
THE PARASITOLOGY SERIES
Parasite
Symbiont
Chimera
Rolling in the Deep
Into the Drowning Deep
Final Girls
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Seanan lives with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, and horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard.
She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Part I: The Empty Spaces
Home Again
1. One Door Opens, Another Is Blown Off Its Hinges
2. Gravity Happens to the Best of Us
3. Dead Woman’s Daughter
Part II: Into the Halls of the Dead
4. What We Bury Is Not Lost, Only Set Aside
5. Places of the Living, Places of the Dead
6. We Pay What We Pay; The World Goes On
Part III: Bake Me A Mountain, Frost Me A Sky
7. Prisoners of Someone Else’s War
8. The Tallest Tower
9. Dancing with the Queen of Cakes
10. The Candy Corn Farm
Part IV: This Is Where We Change the World
11. Sugar and Spice and Paying the Price
12. The Baker’s Story
Part V: What Came After
13. Time to Go
14. The Drowned Girl
Also by Seanan McGuire
About the Author
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.
BENEATH THE SUGAR SKY
Copyright © 2017 by Seanan McGuire
All rights reserved.
Interior illustrations by Rovina Cai
Cover photo illustration by Sean Rodwell
Cover design by FORT
Edited by Lee Harris
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First Edition: January 2018