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Authors: Kami Garcia,Margaret Stohl

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D
EBY
L
INDEE AND
S
USAN AND
J
OHN
R
ACCA
,
for housing us on our many Southern field trips
. B
ILL
Y
OUNG AND
D
AVID
G
OLIA,
for being our knights in shining armor
. I
NDIA'S AND
N
ATALIA'S DADDY,
for helping us when we were supposed to be helping him.
S
AUNDRA
M
ITCHELL,
for everything, as always.

 

O
UR READERS, TEACHERS, AND LIBRARIANS, THE
C
ASTERS AND
O
UTCASTERS
,
who discovered Beautiful Creatures and loved it enough to take another trip through the Tunnels with us. Without you, they're just (so many) words.

 

O
UR MENTOR
, M
ELISSA
M
ARR, AND
O
UR
T
HERAPIST
, H
OLLY
B
LACK.
They know why.
D
R.
S
ARA
L
INDHEIM,
our Keeper, who knows our Casts better than we do.

 

And Finally
, M
ARGARET
M
ILES, LIBRARIAN AND YOUTH SERVICES DIRECTOR AT THE
N
EW
H
ANOVER
C
OUNTY
L
IBRARY, IN
W
ILMINGTON
, N
ORTH
C
AROLINA.
Because Marian Ashcroft isn't the only Caster Librarian, after all.

 
Table of Contents
 

Front Cover Image

Welcome

Dedication

Epigraph

 

Before: Caster Girl

2.15: Perpetual Peace

4.17: Burnt Waffles

4.17: Lemons and Ash

5.1: Falling

5.16: The Call

5.17: All That Remains

6.12: The Girl of My Dreams

6.12: The Lake

6.12: Caster Boy

6.14: Bookworm

6.14: Beneath the Paper

6.15: Southern Crusty

6.15: Tunnel of Love

6.15: Unmistakable

6.15: Wayward Soul

6.15: Exile

6.15: Vexed

6.16: Revelations

6.17: Inheritance

6.17: Keeping

6.17: The Arclight

6.17: Jump

6.18: Outer Doors

6.18: Through the Looking Glass

6.19: Bonaventure

6.19: Scars

6.19: Down Below

6.19: Bad Girl

6.19: Consequences

6.19: No One Special

6.20: Common Thread

6.20: No One's Son

6.20: Sea Change

6.20: Out of the Light

6.20: Flesh and Blood

6.20: Army of One

6.20: Dark Fire

6.20: Seventeen Moons

6.21: Darkness and Light

6.22: The Way Back Home

6.22: New Blood

6.28: Sunrise

After: Siren's Tears

Acknowledgments

Copyright

 

BEAUTIFUL
DARKNESS

 

BY

 

K
AMI
G
ARCIA
&
M
ARGARET
S
TOHL

 

LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY

Boston

New York

Copyright
 

Copyright © 2010 Kami Garcia, LLC, and Margaret Stohl, Inc.

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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First eBook Edition: October 2010

The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the authors. To the extent any real names of individuals, locations, or organizations are included in the book, they are used fictitiously and not intended to be taken otherwise.

ISBN: 978-0-316-12917-6

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