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Автор: Amy Foster S.
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780008190354
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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2017

      Copyright © Amy S. Foster 2017

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

      Cover illustration © Larry Rostant

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      Amy S. Foster asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008190361

      Ebook Edition © November 2017 ISBN: 9780008190354

      Version: 2017-09-25

       Dedication

       For Eva,

       who loves just as fiercely as Ryn does

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       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

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       About the Author

       Acknowledgments

       Also by Amy S. Foster

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER 1

      I hear birdsong inside the Rift.

      A thousand skylarks trilling into an endless emerald prism. I wasn’t expecting music. Maybe a droning hum or a keening wail, but the symphony is a surprise. It fills my ears and spreads throughout the rest of my body like cyanide. In a matter of seconds I’m entirely at the Rift’s mercy.

      The sound overtakes me and the swelling current claims whatever sense of orientation I have left. I don’t know which way is up or down. I’m tumbling through the noise, unable to fill my lungs. My body feels like it’s being squeezed by a vise, but at the same time I’m being pulled apart. And then, almost as quickly as it began, the Rift exhales in a single violent breath, and I am pushed out.

      My face is in damp soil and dead leaves. I look behind me in time to see the Rift’s giant, neon green jaws snap shut. In an instant it’s gone and I’m here, wherever here is.

      At least I’m not alone.

      A long, thin cable runs