Earthquake (27 page)
Authors: Unknown
“People are already fleeing the city,” Thomas continues. “The bad news is that means it’ll take us hours just to get over the bypass and into Arizona. But the good news is we have the perfect hiding place among hundreds of thousands of other terrified people. There’s no way in hell anyone is going to find us.”
“Good,” I say softly.
“What are we going to do?” Alanna asks me.
I turn my head so I can look at her, peering at me over her seat. “The gods can’t help us anymore,” I say, my voice firm and confident as the plan continues to gel in my head. “It’s time to go to the humans.”
Acknowledgments
Every time I
sit down to write these, I know I’m going to forget about six people, so to begin with, thank you to the six people I’m about to forget.
Gillian Levinson is the absolute champion of this series, and half the good stuff in here is directly because of her. No, really. To my awesome Razorbill and Penguin team including but absolutely not limited to Ben Schrank, Marisa Russell, Tara Shanahan, Anna Jarzab, Erin Dempsey, Courtney Wood, Shanta Newlin, Lisa Kelly, Erin Gallagher, and all the other hard-working folks who have had their fingers in the proverbial
Earthquake
pot. You all rock!
No Earthbound series book is complete without a thank you to Scott and Ashley, who are always so supportive but also let me ask a million questions of Scott regarding his brain injury, which, coincidentally (no, it actually was!), mirrors Tavia’s. To Kali, whose volunteer babysitting days made the first draft of this book possible. Oh, Saundra, you make my continuing sanity possible . . . and some days I’m sure it’s at the expense of yours.
My husband, Kenny, was truly a knight in glittering, dazzling, shining armor on this book, which really didn’t want to be written. Thank you for making sure I got twice as many hours of writing time as I usually need. My amazing children, who are the joys of my life: Aud, Bren, Gid, and Gwen, I love you all! And to my masses of extended family who all help in various ways, thank you, thank you, thank you.
