Shallow Graves (26 page)
Authors: Kali Wallace
Thanks first and foremost to my agent, Adriann Ranta, for taking a chance on me and believing in the stories everybody else said were too gruesome to be released into the wild.
Thanks to my amazing editors, Anica Rissi and Alex Arnold, and to everybody else at Katherine Tegen Books for all the work they've put into making this novel better.
Thanks to Kristin McLaughlin and Amanda Poythress for loving these characters from the beginning; to Leah Thomas for reassuring me that it's totally okay and not at all weird to want to spend your entire life writing about terrible things happening to fictional teenagers; to Emily Tesh, Katie Johns, Lindsey Johns,
Brenda Meyer, Cindy Rosenthal, Kerry Given, Siobhan McKiernan, and Carla Spencer for the cheerleading that started long before this novel even existed; to Jennifer Hsyu and Greg Bossert for the commiseration and whiskey and ramen; to Jessica Hilt for all the help and encouragement (and Craft Night); to Tom Underberg for answering my questions about his town; to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer for their advice; and to the rest of my instructors and fellow classmates from Clarion 2010 for making it impossible to give up.
And finally, a million thanks to my family for their patience and support, but especially to Sarah and Pete for letting me be the monster in the basement for a few years while I was figuring things out. Next time we're in Hawaii the princess room is all yours.
Photo credit Jessica Hilt
KALI WALLACE
, for most of her life, was going to be a scientist when she grew up. She studied geology in college, partly because she could get course credit for hiking and camping, and eventually earned a PhD in geophysics researching earthquakes in India and the Himalayas. Only after she had her shiny new doctorate in hand did she admit that she loved inventing imaginary worlds as much as she liked exploring the real one. She's from Colorado but now lives in Southern California. You can find her at
www.kaliwallace.com
and on Twitter @kaliphyte.
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SHALLOW GRAVES
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallace, Kali.
       Shallow graves / Kali Wallace. â First edition.
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       Summary: After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to “free” them at any cost.
       ISBN 978-0-06-236620-7 (hardback)
       EPub Edition © January 2016 ISBN 9780062366221
       [1. DeadâFiction.  2. SupernaturalâFiction.  3. CultsâFiction.  4. MurderâFiction.  5. Racially mixed peopleâFiction.  6. Horror stories.]  I. Title.
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