The Dream Thieves (54 page)

“Who did this? Where is Mom?” Blue demanded.

Calla wordlessly handed her a note. They all read it over Blue’s shoulder.

In a hasty, water-stained scrawl, it said,
Glendower is underground. So am I.

I’d like to thank the usual suspects, but particularly Jackson Pearce, without whom this book quite literally wouldn’t exist. I’d like to thank Brenna Yovanoff for the beginning and Tessa Gratton for the end.

The team at Scholastic continues to be amazing, particularly David Levithan, ever tolerant of my foibles, and Becky Amsel, ever enabling my foibles. Special thanks as always to Rachel Horowitz and Janelle DeLuise for getting me read all over the world.

Blue Ridge Mac: You saved my life, on deadline, not once, but twice. I won’t forget that. Ponies for all of you.

Agent Laura Rennert: You also saved my life, on deadline, not once, not twice, but repeatedly. I won’t forget that, either. Ponies for eternity.

As always, I’m useless without my family. Dad, thanks for dragons. Mom, thanks for hours and hours and hours. Ed, you had to live with Kavinsky for fourteen months. There aren’t enough ponies for that.

MAGGIE STIEFVATER
is the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of the novels
Shiver
,
Linger
, and
Forever
. Her novel
The Scorpio Races
was named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association. She lives in Virginia. You can visit her online at
www.maggiestiefvater.com.

Also by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Boys

The Scorpio Races

Shiver

Linger

Forever

Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception

Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

Copyright © 2013 by Maggie Stiefvater

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981– author.

The dream thieves / Maggie Stiefvater. — First edition.

pages cm. — (The Raven cycle ; Book Two)

Summary: Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch’s ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.

ISBN 978-0-545-42494-3 (jacketed hardcover) 1. Magic — Juvenile fiction. 2. Dreams — Juvenile fiction. 3. Family secrets — Juvenile fiction. 4. Paranormal fiction. [1. Magic — Fiction. 2. Dreams — Fiction. 3. Secrets — Fiction. 4. Occultism — Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series: Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981– Raven cycle ; bk. 2.

PZ7.S855625Dre 2013

813.6 — dc23

2013018731

First edition, September 2013

Cover art © 2013 by Adam S. Doyle

Cover design by Christopher Stengel

e-ISBN 978-0-545-57717-5

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