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Authors: Ari Berk

Death Watch

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Ari Berk

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Book design by Laurent Linn

Map illustration by Drew Willis

The text for this book is set in Minister Std.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Berk, Ari.

Death watch / Ari Berk. —1st ed.

p. cm.—(The Undertaken trilogy)

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber’s father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father’s hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.

ISBN 978-1-4169-9115-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4424-3603-9 (eBook)

[1. Fantasy. 2. Fathers and sons—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.B452293De 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2011006332

For Robin & Kristen, always

 
C
ONTENTS
 

 

Chapter 1: Home

 

Chapter 2: Nobody

 

Chapter 3: Outer Circle

 

Chapter 4: Mail

 

Chapter 5: Portents

 

Chapter 6: Carriage

 

Chapter 7: Night Trip

 

Chapter 8: The White Things That Are Mine

 

Chapter 9: Sidewalk and Statuary

 

Chapter 10: Bring Home the Child

 

Chapter 11: Quiet Voices

 

Chapter 12: New Digs

 

Chapter 13: Preserves

 

Chapter 14: Falling Water

 

Chapter 15: Grand Tour

 

Chapter 16: Books of the Dead

 

Chapter 17: Little Creatures

 

Chapter 18: Locals

 

Chapter 19: Obligations

 

Chapter 20: The Young and the Restless

 

Chapter 21: The Narrows

 

Chapter 22: Night Visiting

 

Chapter 23: Plots

 

Chapter 24: Fortune, My Foe

 

Chapter 25: Like Night and Day

 

Chapter 26: Night Music

 

Chapter 27: Inner Workings

 

Chapter 28: Borrowed Time

 

Chapter 29: Camera Obscura

 

Chapter 30: Beacon

 

Chapter 31: Leaving

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