Wayward Children 07 - Where the Drowned Girls Go, page 13
“Are you all right?” asked Regan, focusing on the nameless girl. “You look like you’re going to be sick.”
The nameless girl looked at her and smiled, brighter than it seemed she had ever smiled before. She pulled her hands out of Sumi’s and placed them to either side of her own neck, fingers spread, like she was giving herself a hug.
“My name is Marian,” she said. “That’s my name.”
The door of the house banged open as a beautiful boy in a hand-stitched vest burst onto the porch. “Sumi’s back!” he yelled. “She’s back, and she’s got Cora with her!” Kade ran down the porch, cutting across the lawn as several more students piled outside, pointing and yelling. Cora ran toward them, leaving Sumi with the girls from Whitethorn. She and the boy met in the middle of the lawn, wrapping their arms around each other and spinning like pinwheels in the sun. So many things were still broken; so many things still needed to be done. But in that moment, there was victory, and the sound of Marian’s joyful sobbing, and a haven to be harbored in.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series; the October Daye series; the InCryptid series; the delightfully dark Middlegame; and other works. She also writes comics for Marvel and darker fiction as Mira Grant and younger fiction as A. Deborah Baker. McGuire lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. You can sign up for email updates here.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
WHERE THE DROWNED GIRLS GO
Copyright © 2021 by Seanan McGuire
Interior art copyright © 2021 by Rovina Cai
All rights reserved.
Edited by Lee Harris
Cover art by Robert Hunt
Cover design by Christine Foltzer
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Names: McGuire, Seanan, author.
Title: Where the drowned girls go / Seanan McGuire.
Description: First edition. | New York: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. | Series: Wayward children; 7
Identifiers: LCCN 2021033095 (print) | LCCN 2021033096 (ebook) | ISBN 9781250213624 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250213617 (ebook)
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Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children 07 - Where the Drowned Girls Go
