Dissonance (47 page)

“Addie, this is important. Please, think really carefully. Is there any other reason why Simon's Echoes wouldn't be unraveling?”

“There is no other reason. He's gone.”

But Simon's Echo hadn't faded, which meant his Original wasn't gone.

He'd escaped the cleaving, and now he was lost in the Echoes.

And I was going to find him.

I'd promised, after all.

END THIRD MOVEMENT

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

O'Rourke, Erica.

Dissonance / Erica O'Rourke. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: “Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-4424-6024-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4424-6026-3 (eBook)

[1. Choice—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. Science fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.O649Di 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013033578