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SIMON PULSE

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition September 2014

Text copyright © 2014 by Scott Westerfeld

Jacket design and photo-illustration by Regina Flath

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Westerfeld, Scott.

Afterworlds / by Scott Westerfeld. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.

p. cm.

Summary: In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the

New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy’s novel, slips into the “Afterworld” to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.

[1. Authorship—Fiction. 2. Future life—Fiction. 3. Dead—Fiction. 4. Ghosts—Fiction. 5. Love—Fiction. 6. East Indian Americans—Fiction. 7. Lesbians—Fiction. 8. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.W5197Aft 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2014006852

ISBN 978-1-4814-2234-5 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4814-2236-9 (eBook)

CONTENTS

Epigraph

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Acknowledgments

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