Читать онлайн «The Replaced»
Автор Кимберли Дертинг
DEDICATION
TO HUDSON JAMES YOU MAKE THE WORLD A BRIGHTER PLACE!
CONTENTS
Dedication
Part One
Chapter One: Day Twenty-Five: Silent Creek Camp
Chapter Two
Chapter Three: Day Twenty-Six
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven: Day Twenty-Seven: Somewhere Along the I-5 Corridor
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine: Columbia Basin, Washington State
Chapter Ten
Part Two
Chapter Eleven: Day Twenty-Eight: Just outside Zion National Park. Somewhere in Utah.
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen: Day Thirty: Blackwater Ranch
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Part Three
Chapter Sixteen: Day Thirty-One
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Back Ads
About the Author
Books by Kimberly Derting
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
Guide
Cover
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PART ONE
—Mary Howitt,
CHAPTER ONE
DEAD.
Or rather, like I was dying.
That’s the way I felt, watching the screen go all black like that. Like my lungs had gone from two functioning things that were pink and plump and filled with life, to shriveled-up hunks of useless meat that could no more pump air from them than I could sprout wings from my back and fly.
It had been seventeen days since I’d watched the guy I love be plucked from the ground by aliens and then vanish in a blaze of light. The same night I’d lost my dad in that very desert.
And now the first actual hints of the two of them being out there had just flashed across the screen, right before the computer shut down.That was the worst part of all this, that I still had no idea where my dad or Tyler were. That was the thing that was driving me utterly-madly-
For the past seventeen days I’d been consumed by thoughts of them, convinced I might never see either of them alive, all while I’ve been trapped here, in the mountains of nowhere, Oregon, in a camp for the Returned—others like me, who’d once had normal-ordinary-
