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Authors: Dean Murray
The Society (A Broken World Book 1) (36 page)
I hit the ground hard—harder than I had in years—but tried to roll to my feet nevertheless. Only Tyrell had somehow ended up on top of me, fist cocked back for what I knew would be a killing blow if I moved so much as an eyelash.
"I'm not going to let you kill him, Skye. I don't care how much he trusts you, this ends here."
I should've told him that I had no intention of killing Brennan, that hurting Brennan was the last thing on my mind, but I was too busy trying to reconcile all of the impossibilities I'd just been faced with.
Tyrell didn't have Jax's massive size and reach. In fact, he was only marginally taller than I was, which meant that any confrontation between us should've come down to nothing more than speed and experience. I'd been injected with cutting-edge nanites the likes of which this world had never seen before, which meant that the speed advantage should've been solidly on my side, but that hadn't been the case. Tyrell had practically flickered from one place to another so fast that I almost hadn't been able to even follow his movements, let alone counter his attacks.
I looked up at him and asked the one question I had to know before I died. "Who are you?"
"Unlike you, Skye, I've never lied to anyone inside the compound. My name really is Tyrell, but you would probably know me better as the Destroyer."
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Acknowledgments:
Writing The Society involved venturing out into new ground. I've done a little bit of sci-fi writing, but by and large, my editors and advance readers haven't been exposed to that side of my writing. I was a little worried that some of them wouldn't make it through to the end of The Society, because it was so different from my other works. When you add in the fact that this was the first book where significant parts of it were dictated rather than typed, there was a lot more work at every level from editor through advance reader and Launch Team, but they all pulled through like champions. My editors, RJ Locksley and Amy Jirsa-Smith were as amazing as always and I'm very grateful for their help.
An equally heartfelt thanks needs expressed to my advance readers. Thank you, Mom, Dad, Matthew, Shalese, Lachele, Mimi, Mark, Kim, Janelle, Jenine, Mei and Heather.
I would also like to say thanks to Merissa at http://archaeolibrarianologist.blogspot.com/ for her ongoing efforts to get the word out about my books, all of the members of my Launch Team, and all of you readers who take the time to tell your friends and family about my books.
Finally, as always, the biggest thanks goes to my wife, Katie. A lot of things haven't gone according to plan this year, but we're still trucking along, releasing novels, and most of the thanks for that goes to Katie. Not only has she been my trusted first reader, she also did the breathtaking cover for The Society, and I'm grateful for that, and everything else she does. Thank you Katie!
About the Author:
Dean Murray is a prolific author with dozens of titles across multiple pen names and more than half a million copies of his work currently in circulation.
Dean started reading seriously in the second grade due to a competition and has spent most of the subsequent three decades lost in other people's worlds.
Things worsened, or improved depending on your point of view, when he first started experimenting with writing while finishing up his accounting degree. These days Dean has a wonderful wife and two lovely daughters to keep him more grounded than he used to be, but the idea of bringing others along with him as he meets interesting new people in universes nobody else has ever seen drags him back to his computer on a regular basis.
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Publisher's Note:
Dean Murray's ongoing Reflection Series has been a stunning success with hundreds of thousands of copies in circulation, and a rich, complex world where choices—right or wrong—have real, profound consequences. Unsatisfied with the restrictions imposed on him by writing inside of the conventional series structure, Dean has returned to Sanctuary and the characters so many fans have fallen in love with.
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Table of 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
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