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Anya Allyn's fourth book in the Dollhouse Series...
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Summary from Goodreads
Final book of the series.
Cassie endures her darkest days under the rule of Balthazar. She finds a passage into the high tower, and comes face to face with the shadowy being whose presence has haunted her since her first days at the castle of La Falaise - and she makes an immense and horrifying discovery.
At the museum, the last survivors of a bleak existence are barely holding on. And the strange Order of Sister Celia make a chilling decision.
Someone very close to Ethan once told him, "When we can fight, we will fight, and when we can no longer fight, we will endure."
With time runnig out, it is time to fight.
Chapter 10 Excerpt
His eyes were wet and anguished as he took two antique pistols from inside his coat. “I hoped I could offer you something better than this.”
My heart dropped through my chest. “No! You go back to the museum. I need you to stay alive. Ethan… please…..”
He shook his head with the same determination he always had, but all light had dulled in his eyes. “I wish I were stronger, but I’m not. I can’t suffer to live when you’re here, at the mercy of Balthazar. You can choose whether you wish to use the gun or not. Hide it somewhere safe, so that it’s there… if you need it.”
“You said once that the thought of me kept you fighting. Let it keep you fighting. And I need you, I need to know that you’re here in the world, fighting.”
He held my wrist. “I have no fight left. Not if you’re here with him. Not if I can’t get you away. I can’t fight anymore, Cassie.”
Waves crashed with abandon over the far reaches of the rock platform. The thought of him leaving me once more filled me with cold terror. “I would prefer death with you to life with Balthazar… a thousand times over.”
His jaw clenched as he handed me a gun, his eyes not leaving mine.
My fingers gripped the hard metal and wood of the weapon. “You once said there are lives in which we’re together. I’ll hold onto that, until my last second on this earth….”
Sweat dampened the lengths of the hair that fell across his eyes and gaunt cheekbones. “You and I will always be.”
My heart dropped through my chest. “No! You go back to the museum. I need you to stay alive. Ethan… please…..”
He shook his head with the same determination he always had, but all light had dulled in his eyes. “I wish I were stronger, but I’m not. I can’t suffer to live when you’re here, at the mercy of Balthazar. You can choose whether you wish to use the gun or not. Hide it somewhere safe, so that it’s there… if you need it.”
“You said once that the thought of me kept you fighting. Let it keep you fighting. And I need you, I need to know that you’re here in the world, fighting.”
He held my wrist. “I have no fight left. Not if you’re here with him. Not if I can’t get you away. I can’t fight anymore, Cassie.”
Waves crashed with abandon over the far reaches of the rock platform. The thought of him leaving me once more filled me with cold terror. “I would prefer death with you to life with Balthazar… a thousand times over.”
His jaw clenched as he handed me a gun, his eyes not leaving mine.
My fingers gripped the hard metal and wood of the weapon. “You once said there are lives in which we’re together. I’ll hold onto that, until my last second on this earth….”
Sweat dampened the lengths of the hair that fell across his eyes and gaunt cheekbones. “You and I will always be.”
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About the Author
Anya Allyn was born unexpectedly and without proper instructions.
A dreamy girl betwixt the clouds and space, she was given the thing she desired most for her tenth birthday–a microscope–and subsequently developed a penchant for small things: frogs and ants and microbes, and the earth (when viewed from other planets).
She considers a mind and body that do not roam free are the living dead.
Anya lives in a cottage by the sea–and slips in and out of forests and through a day, where the wild things are ….
She has four adventure-seeking boys and a bookcase filled with adventures. One day soon, she plans to head off on adventures of her own…
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