Stung (29 page)

I can literally see the news spreading through them, wiping away despair like a physical wave, and I understand what is happening.

For the first time in four years, they have been given hope.

WARNING: FUGITIVE

FORMER GOVERNOR JACOBY SONESCHEN
HAS ESCAPED FROM PRISON

Age: 48

Height: 5’9”

Weight: 150

Hair: Brown with gray temples

Other: Recent bullet wound to chest

Possibly running for Wyoming

Reward: 8 oz honey for any information

leading to his recapture

I must first thank my husband, Jaime, because without my picking his brain about possible plot scenarios, this book never would have made it past page one hundred. Also, he turned this book’s dedication into something beautiful.

As for the sleep-destroying nightmare that became
chapter 1
—thank you!

Marlene Stringer, my dear agent, you rock. Enough said.

Emily Easton, Nicole Gastonguay, Laura Whitaker, Melissa Kavonic, Regina Roff, Donna Mark, Patricia McHugh, and everyone else at Walker Books who has put time, thought, effort, and sweat into this book, thank you! It amazes me what a group effort book publishing is, and I am eternally grateful for your professional expertise.

Bonny Anderson and Kristin Wester, you are the best critique
buddies a girl could hope for. On that note—Elana Johnson, thank you for reading the first ten pages and asking a hundred questions. You opened my eyes to endless possibilities.

Last of all, thank you to Mom and Dad, Tiffiny, Brittany, Natalie, Matt and Ashlee, Ashlee’s mom and sister, Jennifer, Michelle, and Eamonn for reading this in manuscript form and loving it. Your enthusiasm is what makes me love to write.

Shifting

Copyright © 2013 by Bethany Wiggins

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First published in the United States of America in April 2013
by Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
E-book edition published in April 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiggins, Bethany.
Stung / Bethany Wiggins.
pages cm
Summary: When a vaccine to save endangered bees causes their sting to turn children into
ferocious killer beasts, the uninfected build a wall to keep the beasts out, but Fiona wakes
up on the wrong side.
ISBN 978-0-8027-3418-1
[1. Survival—fiction. 2. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W6382St 2013    [Fic]—dc23     2012027183

eISBN 978-0-8027-3419-8

• Title Page
  
• Dedication
  
• Contents
  
• Chapter 1
  
• Chapter 2
  
• Chapter 3
  
• Chapter 4
  
• Chapter 5
  
• Chapter 6
  
• Chapter 7
  
• Chapter 8
  
• Chapter 9
  
• Chapter 10
  
• Chapter 11
  
• Chapter 12
  
• Chapter 13
  
• Chapter 14
  
• Chapter 15
  
• Chapter 16
  
• Chapter 17
  
• Chapter 18
  
• Chapter 19
  
• Chapter 20
  
• Chapter 21
  
• Chapter 22
  
• Chapter 23
  
• Chapter 24
  
• Chapter 25
  
• Chapter 26
  
• Chapter 27
  
• Chapter 28
  
• Chapter 29
  
• Chapter 30
  
• Chapter 31
  
• Chapter 32
  
• Chapter 33
  
• Chapter 34
  
• Chapter 35
  
• Chapter 36
  
• Chapter 37
  
• Chapter 38
  
• Epilogue
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Also By Bethany Wiggins
  
• eCopyright