title: TOO YOUNG TO DIE: The Story of Jos
author: Margot Webb
description: Margot Webb worked with gangs in the Los Angeles area. After teaching in various schools and serving as an integration counselor, she came to understand the desperation of gang members. Margot Webb was born in Germany and came to the United States when she was ten years old. Her published books include Coping With Street Gangs, Drugs and Gangs, The Value of Loyalty, and Shadows at Noon?A story of love, terror, and escape.Margot Webb enjoys reading and music and lives with her husband in Valencia, California. She frequently travels abroad, and her book Shadows at Noon was translated into German and made into a play.
zlib_text: Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Prologue
  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
  Epilogue
  About the Author
  Also by Jill Shalvis
  Copyright
  About the Publisher
  
  Prologue
  Christmas, twelve years ago
  Fourteen-year-old Hannah Banfield stood at the very edge of a cliff. Not a mental cliff, which would
  have been less terrifying. Nope, she was stupid enough to be standing on an actual rocky bluff, toes
  hanging off as she stared down at the Caribbean blue-green sea swirling hundreds of thousands of
  feet below her.
  “Twenty,” came the amused male voice at her side. “It’s twenty feet.”
  She slid her gaze to James Webber, ancient and full of wisdom at age fifteen. “We’re going to die.”
  Tall, gangly, his messy dark brown hair weeks past needing a cut, he flashed her his crooked smile.
  His board shorts hung nearly to his knees, one of which was scraped and bleeding from when she’d
  accidentally tripped him on the hi