OUR READERS, TEACHERS, AND LIBRARIANS, THE CASTERS AND OUTCASTERS, who discovered Beautiful Creatures and loved it enough to take another trip through the Tunnels with us. Without you, they're just (so many) words.
OUR MENTOR, MELISSA MARR, AND OUR THERAPIST, HOLLY BLACK. They know why. DR. SARA LINDHEIM, our Keeper, who knows our Casts better than we do.
And Finally, MARGARET MILES, LIBRARIAN AND YOUTH SERVICES DIRECTOR AT THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY LIBRARY, IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA. Because Marian Ashcroft isn't the only Caster Librarian, after all.
Table of Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Before: Caster Girl
2.15: Perpetual Peace
4.17: Burnt Waffles
4.17: Lemons and Ash
5.1: Falling
5.16: The Call
5.17: All That Remains
6.12: The Girl of My Dreams
6.12: The Lake
6.12: Caster Boy
6.14: Bookworm
6.14: Beneath the Paper
6.15: Southern Crusty
6.15: Tunnel of Love
6.15: Unmistakable
6.15: Wayward Soul
6.15: Exile
6.15: Vexed
6.16: Revelations
6.17: Inheritance
6.17: Keeping
6.17: The Arclight
6.17: Jump
6.18: Outer Doors
6.18: Through the Looking Glass
6.19: Bonaventure
6.19: Scars
6.19: Down Below
6.19: Bad Girl
6.19: Consequences
6.19: No One Special
6.20: Common Thread
6.20: No One's Son
6.20: Sea Change
6.20: Out of the Light
6.20: Flesh and Blood
6.20: Army of One
6.20: Dark Fire
6.20: Seventeen Moons
6.21: Darkness and Light
6.22: The Way Back Home
6.22: New Blood
6.28: Sunrise
After: Siren's Tears
Acknowledgments
Copyright
BEAUTIFUL
DARKNESS
BY
KAMI GARCIA &
MARGARET STOHL
LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY
Boston New York
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First eBook Edition: October 2010
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ISBN: 978-0-316-12917-6