See Margaret.
Pay the debt.
Get it over.
“She should be up ahead,” Kendra said ten minutes later. “In that grove of birch.” Her pace quickened. “Margaret!” she called. “Answer me. I’ve stuck my neck out for you, and it had better be worth it.”
“It’s worth it,” Margaret called back. “Of course, it will require a little work from you to help make it worthwhile. I can’t do everything.”
“Margaret, what the hell is going on?” Jane called wearily, as they entered the birch grove. “I really didn’t want to come out here tonight.”
“I know. But I couldn’t come to you.” The next minute she said, “I hear you. You’re getting close to me. Slow down, and don’t make any sudden movements.”
“What?”
“I think we should do as she says,” Kendra said, as they strode deeper through the trees. “I have a hunch she may be the good witch tonight.”
Margaret giggled. “But I’m always good, well, almost always. And particularly tonight. I’m just around the next corner. Slowly…”
Jane moved around the corner.
She stopped, her eyes widening with shock.
Margaret was sitting on the ground only a short distance away. Lying half-on her lap was a magnificent gray-and-white wolf who lifted his head, his green-amber eyes shining warily as he saw Kendra and Jane.
“Shh,” Margaret said softly to the wolf. “It’s fine. You’re safe.” Then she smiled at Jane, a smile full of warmth and love that lit her face with joy. “It is fine. It’s wonderful. We have a chance to make it right.”
“Margaret?”
“She’s not dead, Jane.” Her voice was vibrating with the same joy that illuminated her entire being. “Do you hear me? Eve is alive.”
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EVE
BY IRIS JOHANSEN
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Eight Days to Live
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Body of Lies
Final Target
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And Then You Die
Long After Midnight
The Ugly Duckling
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Dark Rider
Midnight Warrior
The Beloved Scoundrel
The Magnificent Rogue
The Tiger Prince
Last Bridge Home
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IRIS JOHANSEN is the New York Times bestselling author of Taking Eve, Sleep No More, What Doesn’t Kill You, Bonnie, Quinn, Eve, Chasing the Night, Eight Days to Live, Blood Game, Deadlock, Dark Summer, Pandora’s Daughter, Quicksand, Killer Dreams, On the Run, Countdown, Firestorm, Fatal Tide, Dead Aim, No One to Trust, and more. And with her son, Roy Johansen, she has coauthored Close Your Eyes, Shadow Zone, Storm Cycle, and Silent Thunder. Visit www.irisjohansen.com.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
HUNTING EVE. Copyright © 2013 by Johansen Publishing LLLP. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Rob Grom
Cover photograph by Shuhui Yang
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Johansen, Iris.
Hunting Eve / Iris Johansen. — First U.S. Edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-01999-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-02000-0 (e-book)
1. Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Tracking and trailing—Fiction. 3. Secrets—Fiction. 4. Suspense fiction. I. Title.
PS3560.O275H86 2013
813'.54—dc23
2013009108
eISBN 9781250020000
First Edition: July 2013