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The Rising

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by Heather Graham


  The answer is simple: I didn’t have a choice then, any more than I’ve got one now. Not if the rising of a new world, committed to the destruction of the old, is to be stopped.

  You don’t know who I am, and you don’t need to. This isn’t my story.

  It’s Alex’s, because he’s our only hope.

  The survivor.

  OTHER BOOKS BY HEATHER GRAHAM

  Flawless

  The Hidden

  The Forgotten

  The Silenced

  The Dead Play On

  The Betrayed

  The Hexed

  The Cursed

  Waking the Dead

  The Night Is Forever

  The Night Is Alive

  The Night Is Watching

  Let the Dead Sleep

  The Uninvited

  The Unspoken

  The Unholy

  The Unseen

  An Angel for Christmas

  The Evil Inside

  Sacred Evil

  Heart of Evil

  Phantom Evil

  Night of the Vampires

  The Keepers

  Ghost Moon

  Ghost Night

  Ghost Shadow

  The Killing Edge

  Night of the Wolves

  Home in Time for Christmas

  Unhallowed Ground

  Dust to Dust

  Nightwalker

  Deadly Gift

  Deadly Harvest

  Deadly Night

  The Death Dealer

  The Last Noel

  The Séance

  Blood Red

  The Dead Room

  Kiss of Darkness

  The Vision

  The Island

  Ghost Walk

  Killing Kelly

  The Presence

  Dead on the Dance Floor

  Picture Me Dead

  Haunted

  Hurricane Bay

  A Season of Miracles

  Night of the Blackbird

  Never Sleep with Strangers

  Eyes of Fire

  Slow Burn

  Night Heat

  Haunted Destiny

  OTHER BOOKS BY JON LAND

  The Alpha Deception

  *Betrayal (nonfiction)

  *Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn

  *Blood Diamonds

  *The Blue Widows

  The Council of Ten

  *Day of the Delphi

  *Dead Simple

  *Dolphin Key

  The Doomsday Spiral

  The Eighth Trumpet

  *The Fires of Midnight

  The Gamma Option

  *Hope Mountain

  *Keepers of the Gate

  *Kingdom of the Seven

  Labyrinth

  *The Last Prophecy

  The Lucifer Directive

  The Ninth Dominion

  The Omega Command

  The Omicron Legion

  Pandora’s Temple

  *The Pillars of Solomon

  *The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending

  *Strong at the Break

  *Strong Cold Dead

  *Strong Darkness

  *Strong Enough to Die

  *Strong Justice

  *Strong Light of Day

  *Strong Rain Falling

  *Strong Vengeance

  *Takedown (nonfiction)

  The Tenth Circle

  The Valhalla Testament

  The Vengeance of the Tau

  Vortex

  *A Walk in the Darkness

  *The Walls of Jericho

  *Published by Forge Books

  About the Authors

  HEATHER GRAHAM is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than one hundred novels and novellas. A recipient of the RWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the International Thriller Writers’ ThrillMaster and Silver Bullet Awards, she has been honored with awards from Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, RT Book Reviews, and more. You can sign up for email updates here.

  JON LAND is the USA Today bestselling author of forty novels, including Strong Enough to Die, Strong Justice, Strong at the Break, Strong Vengeance, Strong Rain Falling (winner of the 2014 International Book Award and 2013 USA Best Book Award for Mystery-Suspense), Strong Darkness (winner of the 2014 USA Best Book Award and the 2015 International Book Award for Thriller), and Strong Light of Day (winner of the 2016 International Book Award for Best Thriller-Adventure and the 2016 Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Mystery). Land is a graduate of Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and can be found at jonlandbooks.com or on Twitter @jondland. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Epigraph

  From an Anonymous Journal

  Prologue: Patterns

  One: Alex

  1. Coin Flip

  2. Go, Team, Go!

  3. The Second Coming

  4. Stranger in a Strange Land

  5. Impact

  6. Frozen

  7. Ambulance Ride

  8. Waiting

  9. Diagnosis

  10. The Big Top

  11. Foreign Language

  Two: Visitors

  12. A Spark

  13. Dr. Payne

  14. Home Sweet Home

  15. Artifacts

  16. Home Invasion

  Three: Ames

  17. Intern

  18. Patterns

  19. Emergency Response

  Four: Ashes to Ashes

  20. Payne and Pain

  21. Written in Blood

  22. Escape

  23. Get Alex

  24. The Closet

  25. 911

  26. Rigolo

  27. Love Bug

  28. Where the Heart Is

  29. To Protect and Serve

  30. Reappearances

  31. The Ash Man

  32. Goodbyes

  Five: Trackers

  33. The Bunker

  34. Guardian

  35. The Memory Room

  36. A Big Stick

  37. The Scent

  Six: MONTER_Y MO_T_R INN

  38. Blue Plate Special

  39. Sleepover

  40. Janus

  41. Late for Practice

  42. Artist in Residence

  43. By the Numbers

  44. Problem Set

  Seven: Meng Po

  45. Message

  46. Dancer’s House

  47. Knock Wood

  48. Flash Drive

  49. Origins

  50. The Dancer

  51. Ping

  52. Confession

  53. Wild Card

  54. Diagnosis

  55. Blinds

  56. The Impossible

  57. Dr. Chu

  58. The Chrysalis

  59. The Signal

  60. The Men at the Door

  61. Misdirection

  Eight: Battleground

  62. Drone Things

  63. Trash

  64. AC/DC

  65. Chase

  66. War

  Nine: End of the Road

  67. The Woods

  68. Ground Zero

  69. Gone

  70. Marshaling the Forces

  71. On the Road

  72. T-H-E-N-D C-O-M-E-S

  73. All Free Tomorrow

  74. Phoning Home

  75. The General

  Ten: Laboratory Z

  76.
San Ramon

  77. Bishop Ranch

  78. Mr. Wizard

  79. The Other Side

  80. Aliens Go Home

  81. Pings

  82. The Carousel House

  83. Shock Wave

  84. Waiting

  Eleven: Rebels

  85. Playground

  86. Fifth Column

  87. Good News and Bad News

  88. Wilder

  89. Sketchbook

  90. Prescription

  91. Outer Limits

  92. Push of a Button

  93. Divided Loyalties

  94. The Embarcadero

  95. Boat Ride

  96. CT Scan

  97. Attack Mode

  98. Leakage

  99. A Sinking Ship

  100. Lifeboat

  Twelve: Alcatraz

  101. Zero-Sum Game

  102. Beacon

  103. The Fort

  104. Descending Spiral

  105. Meltdown

  Epilogue: The Road Ahead

  From an Anonymous Journal

  By Heather Graham and Jon Land

  About the Authors

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

  THE RISING

  Copyright © 2016 by Heather Graham and Jon Land

  All rights reserved.

  Cover photographs by Shutterstock

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  ISBN 978-1-4668-3648-8 (e-book)

  e-ISBN 9781466836488

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  First Edition: January 2017

 

 

 


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