title: Out After Dark: A Novel
author:  Kai Maristed 
description: Part fairy tale, part murder mystery, this intriguing, deeply felt first novel about two orphans and their abusive guardian is surprisingly hard to put down. In 1962, Con and her baby brother Lordie are vacationing in the mountains of Germany with their parents, who go off to gather mushrooms and fall to their deaths. Blurred memories follow, of the childrens' awful experiences: time in a German orphanage; eventual adoption by their hippie-like Aunt Cherry; wanderings through Europe and the States. Cherry herself, a slovenly woman of no means, has a succession of terrible boyfriends and a fierce temper, particularly when she is drunk. She inflicts heavy physical punishment on both children, injuring Con so badly that she nearly dies. Con's questions about her parents' estate and her growing worries about her deeply antisocial little brother are the primary concerns of this narrative, which flashes back and forth between the past and the present, as Lordie is charged by police with murdering his aunt. The tale's grim, remote quality may leave some readers nonplussed, but Maristed skillfully summons a child's-eye view of the world, and the real shock this novel provides is a shock of recognition at the universal emotions it summons. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: BLOOD LEGACY
  WOLF MOON ACADEMY TRILOGY
  
  JEN L. GREY
  
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  CONTENTS
  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
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  CHAPTER ONE
  re you sure about this?" Kai's face was a mask of indifference, which wasn't normal. Instead of
  his brown eyes twinkling and wearing a smile on his face, it was as if I was nothing to him.
  I'd hurt him in ways I wished more than anything that I could take back, but he wasn't my true
  mate. No matter how hard I had tried to forget about Liam, it n