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Authors: Alma Katsu

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LMA
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THE TAKER TRILOGY

The Taker

The Reckoning

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Alma Katsu

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition January 2014

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Interior design by Jill Putorti

Cover photo © Michael Frost

Cover design by Lisa Litwack

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Katsu, Alma.

The descent : book three of the taker trilogy / Alma Katsu. — First

Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

pages cm

1. Paranormal fiction. I. Title.

PS3611.A7886D48 2014

813’.6—dc23

2013033581

ISBN 978-1-4516-5182-9

ISBN 978-1-4516-5185-0 (ebook)

CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Acknowledgments

Readers Group Guide

Introduction

Topics & Questions for Discussion

Enhance Your Book Club

About Alma Katsu

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