Teardrop 02 – Waterfall – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview The sky wept. Sorrow flooded the earth. Starling opened her mouth to catch the raindrops falling through the hole in her cordon. The Seedbearer’s transparent sanctuary was pitched over the bonfire like a camper’s cozy tent. It sealed out the deluge, except for the small opening at the top meant to vent the … Read more

Teardrop 01 – Teardrop – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview Dusky amber sunset. Humidity tugging on lazy sky. Lone car hauling up the Seven Mile Bridge, toward the airport in Miami, toward a flight that wouldn’t be caught. Rogue wave rising in the water east of the Keys, churning into a monster that would baffle oceanographers on the evening news. Traffic stopped at … Read more

Teardrop 00 – Last Day of Love – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview Today is my eighteenth birthday. Tomorrow I swear off love. It’s absurd. I’ve never kissed a girl, never asked anyone out. I’ve never slipped my arm around a waist, hoping for encouragement to let it stay. I’ve never danced entangled in another’s limbs, never flirted in a hallway or teased someone and walked … Read more

Fallen 05 – Unforgiven – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview Cam’s boots touched down on the eaves of the old church beneath a cold and starry sky. He drew his wings close and gazed out at the landscape. Spanish moss, white in the moonlight, hung like icicles from antebellum trees. Cinder-block buildings framed a weedy field and a pair of splintery bleachers. Wind … Read more

Fallen 04 – Rapture – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview It is a wonderful thing to find one’s acknowledgments growing with every book. I am grateful to Michael Stearns and Ted Malawer for believing in me, for indulging me, for making me work so hard. To Wendy Loggia, Beverly Horowitz, Krista Vitola, and the excellent team at Delacorte Press—you have made Fallen soar … Read more

Fallen 03 – Passion – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Impassioned thanks to Wendy Loggia, who envisioned this crazy book and whose sane support carries the series. To Beverly Horowitz, for her wisdom and style. To Michael Stearns and Ted Malawer, for making things soar. To Noreen Herits and Roshan Nozari: my gratitude for all you do deepens with each book. Special … Read more

Fallen 02 – Torment – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview First, inexpressible thanks to my readers for all the effusive and generous support. Because of you, I may just have to keep writing forever. To Wendy Loggia, whose belief in this series was a great gift, and who knows just how to make it more like what it always wanted to be. To … Read more

Fallen 01 – Fallen – Kate, Lauren

Book Preview IN THE BEGINNING HELSTON, ENGLAND SEPTEMBER 1854 Around midnight, her eyes at last took shape. The look in them was feline, half determined and half tentative—all trouble. Yes, they were just right, those eyes. Rising up to her fine, elegant brow, inches from the dark cascade of her hair. He held the paper … Read more