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Authors: Michael Koryta

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Envy the Night

A Welcome Grave

Sorrow’s Anthem

Tonight I Said Goodbye

Contents

Welcome

Dedication

Epigraph

Part One: Pledges

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Part Two: Last Week’s Autumn

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Part Three: Trophy Hunters

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Part Four: Autumn’s End

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Acknowledgments

About the Author

A Preview of
The Ridge

A Preview of
A Welcome Grave

Also by Michael Koryta

Copyright

Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2012 by Michael Koryta

Cover design by Ploy Siripant; photograph © Doug Steley A / Alamy

Author photograph by Wout Jan Balhuizen

Cover © 2012 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Excerpt of
The Ridge
© copyright 2011 by Michael Koryta

Excerpt of
A Welcome Grave
© copyright 2007 by Michael Koryta

All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.

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The author is grateful for permission to use lyrics from “Return to Me,” by Matthew Ryan, from the album
Regret Over the Wires ©
Irving Music Inc./BMI.

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ISBN 978-0-316-21590-9

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