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506 pages, Paperback
First published April 4, 2014
I had come to learn that while Wormwood was full of many things, the truth was not one of them.
And the truth was what I needed.
I had nothing else left.
”You sound pretty confident of victory,” he said suspiciously.
“If I can’t believe in myself, who can?”
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He flexed his muscles. “No mercy for you, female. None!”
“I don’t remember asking for any,” I said in a deadly calm voice.
Just beyond that, in the sky, were the stars, the lost stars as I thought of them now.
Lost, like we were.
Would they ever find their way? Would we?
Perhaps not.
Perhaps we would simply flame out.
But at least we would have tried.