


He had been there for an hour, would wait only moments more to watch-no, to oversee the coming tragedy, to make sure that this time everything went right. His gaze hung on the last car allowed to cross. And him: the boy in the stolen fishing boat a hundred yards west of the bridge. Traffic stopped at the mouth of the bridge by construction-suited men staging a temporary roadblock. Rogue wave rising in the water east of the Keys, churning into a monster that would baffle oceanographers on the evening news. Lone car hauling up the Seven Mile Bridge, toward the airport in Miami, toward a flight that wouldn’t be caught. PROLOGUE PREHISTORY So this was it: Dusky amber sunset. PZ7.K15655Te 2013 -dc23 2013014014 ISBN 978-6-5 (trade paperback) Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Ember Edition 2014 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. (Teardrop trilogy) Summary: Since Eureka’s mother drowned, she wishes she were dead too, but after discovering that an ancient book is more than a story Eureka begins to believe that Ander is right about her being involved in strange things- and in grave danger. Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows: Kate, Lauren.


Ember and the E colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 2013. Published in the United States by Ember, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. Text copyright © 2013 by Lauren Kate Cover art copyright © 2014 by Dustin Cohen Cover type special effects copyright © by Luke Lucas Interior teardrop illustration copyright © 2013 by Colin Anderson All rights reserved. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events,or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. L AUR E N K ATE One tear can end the world. #1 New York Times bestselling author of the FALLEN series
