Authors: Ari Berk
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Ari Berk
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Map illustration by Drew Willis
The text for this book is set in Minister Std.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berk, Ari.
Death watch / Ari Berk. —1st ed.
p. cm.—(The Undertaken trilogy)
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber’s father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father’s hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.
ISBN 978-1-4169-9115-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4424-3603-9 (eBook)
[1. Fantasy. 2. Fathers and sons—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B452293De 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2011006332
For Robin & Kristen, always