{"id":6197,"date":"2026-01-04T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/ashley-bell-koontz-dean\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:02:28","slug":"ashley-bell-koontz-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/ashley-bell-koontz-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Bell – Koontz, Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Book Preview<\/h3>\n
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Contents<\/h1>\n
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Cover<\/p>\n

Title Page<\/p>\n

Copyright<\/p>\n

Epigraph<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 1: The Woman Who Intended to Marry a Hero<\/p>\n

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Chapter 1: The Girl Whose Mind Was Always Spinning<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 2: Another Perfect Day in Paradise<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 3: The Salon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 4: Searching for the Silver Lining<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 5: Pet the Cat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 6: The Frightening Pace of Examination<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 7: The Power of Cookies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 8: Hammered and Fully Prosecuted<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 9: Into the Tunnel of Fate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 10: The Kind of Girl She Is<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 11: A Time When She Believed in Magic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 12: Footsteps of a Man Unseen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 13: Young Again in Grief<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 14: She Sat Up, Sat Up, Sat Up in Bed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 15: One Moment of Truth Among Many<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 16: A Memory Inexplicable in These Circumstances<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 17: In the Hours Before the Crisis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 18: Something Bad and Something Worse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 19: If Only It Were Just a Ghost<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 20: A Condition of Complete Simplicity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 21: Half a World Away from Home<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 22: What the Hell Just Happened?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 23: She Just Can\u2019t Leave It Alone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 24: How Sweet It Would Be If It Could Be True<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 25: Captain? Are You Up There, Captain?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 26: People of Sinister Intentions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 27: What She Did When She Didn\u2019t Go Insane<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 28: A Visit from the Doctor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 29: The Poison-Ivy Itch of Intuition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 30: Proud Collector of 10,000 Heads<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 31: Crazy When You Least Expect It<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 2: Girl With a Mission, Girl on the Run<\/p>\n

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Chapter 32: Solange St. Croix and the Butterfly Effect<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 33: Waiting for the Wrong People to Show Up<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 34: The I of the Needle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 35: A World and a Half Away<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 36: Scrabblemancy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 37: Every Mama\u2019s Babies Got to Pee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 38: Give Death a Kiss<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 39: Love Call and War Cry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 40: Downhill, Over the Edge, Into Chaos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 41: The Warrior Olaf and His Valkyrie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 42: The Book of Leaping Panther and Gazelle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 43: Three Days in a Locked Room<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 44: Adjusting to Paranoia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 45: No Haven from Her Enemies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 3: From Time to Time the World Goes Mad<\/p>\n

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Chapter 46: Where She Went When She Couldn\u2019t Go Home Again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 47: Night Visitors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 48: Extraction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 49: The Man Who Borrowed the Names of Death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 50: Fog and the Fog of Time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 51: Thunder Crusher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 52: Going Home with the Dead<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 53: Walk the Board, Dudette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 54: A Taste of the Caterpillar\u2019s Mushroom?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 55: The Photograph<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 56: Out of Chaos, Conviction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 4: Putting the Pieces Together at the Risk of Falling Apart<\/p>\n

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Chapter 57: Breakfast with a Side of Surprise<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 58: Off the Grid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 59: The First to Recognize Her Talent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 60: The Panther of Lost Time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 61: As I Lay Dying<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 62: A Smile from the Past<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 63: Sleeping on a Sea of Troubles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 64: A Literary Lion\u2019s Den<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 65: Silence Like a Cancer Grows<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 66: He Who Would Rather Die than Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 67: A Little Time to Chill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 68: A Man, a Dog, a Moment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 69: Cash, Key, and Contact<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 70: Cookies, Tea, and Dark History<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 71: An Old Woman with a Junk-Shop Memory<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 72: Questions Not Asked<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 73: Just Before the Swarm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 74: Hermione, Hermione, and the Men in Black<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 75: Girls, Thugs, and the Remade Woman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 76: Two Dead Girls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 77: The Collar That Restrains Her<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 78: In Hiding from a Nonexistent Husband<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 79: Paxton Reflecting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 80: The Truth She Dares Not Face<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 81: The Ultimate Traitor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 5: Out of the Ashes of Memory<\/p>\n

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Chapter 82: Returning to the Place That She Called Evil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 83: What Do You Need Most?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 84: While Waiting for an Eskimo Pie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 85: The Library of Babel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 86: To Break Her Spirit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 87: No Dragons, No Skulls, No Hearts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 6: The Girl Who Was and Wasn\u2019t There<\/p>\n

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Chapter 88: The Best Western That Wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 89: Master of Her Fate, Captain of Her Soul<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 90: The First Shock of Three<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 91: The Second Shock of Three<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 92: The Third Shock of Three<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 93: Heart to Heart in a Desperate Hour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 7: Two Girls Needing to Be Found<\/p>\n

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Chapter 94: The Girl We Only Think We Know<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 95: A Familiar House Never Seen Before<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 96: The Box of Ordinary Things<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 97: Where Shadows Live Their Shadow Lives<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 98: A Little Trove of Traumas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 99: The Girl Who Loved Horses<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 100: The Clock, the Watch, and the Ovens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 101: Devious and Numerous<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 102: The Wicked Witch Lets Her Hair Down<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 103: Valiant Girls Do Not Go Mad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 104: Boozer, Baker, Starmaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 105: The Passenger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 106: A Father\u2019s Intuition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 107: By the Skin of Their Teeth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 108: The Enduring Chill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Part 8: Bibi to Bell<\/p>\n

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Chapter 109: The Eight-Fingered Waitress and the Possibility of Death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 110: The Girl in Need of Discipline<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 111: Like a Message in a Bottle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 112: Teacher of the Year Award<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 113: What Words Cannot Describe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 114: The Awful Woman and the Terrible Blow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 115: Toba\u2019s Life of Fact and Fiction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 116: Reality and the Realtor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 117: The Tides of Night<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 118: He Can Fix Anything. Almost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 119: The Man Who Didn\u2019t Belong There<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 120: The Hard Way<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 121: The Captain Regrets<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 122: Bibi on the Brink<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 123: A Moment in Her Life with Books<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 124: The Captain and His Albatross<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 125: In a World of Her Own Making<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 126: The Dangerous Art<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 127: Bibi to Bell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 128: God Bless You, Erich Segal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 129: Where She Goes from Here<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chapter 130: She Hears the Song in the Egg of the Bird<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dedication<\/p>\n

By Dean Koontz<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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