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Contents Ebook title page Title Page Copyright Dedication Books by Cami Murdock Jensen Contents 1. Agnes Ann Cavanaugh—Cockroach 2. A Super-Secret Spy 3. Unwitting Allies 4. Over the Edge 5. My Nasty New Tour Guide 6. Swallowed . . . Again 7. The Final Task 8. Amrak 9. Tainted Magic Torture 10. An Unfortunate Change of Guard 11. Jailbreak or Die 12. Three . . . Two . . . One . . . Contact! 13. Not...
Contents Ebook title page Title Page Copyright Dedication Books by Cami Murdock Jensen Contents 1. Agnes Ann Cavanaugh—Cockroach 2. A Super-Secret Spy 3. Unwitting Allies 4. Over the Edge 5. My Nasty New Tour Guide 6. Swallowed . . . Again 7. The Final Task 8. Amrak 9. Tainted Magic Torture 10. An Unfortunate Change of Guard 11. Jailbreak or Die 12. Three . . . Two . . . One . . . Contact! 13. Not Alone for Reals 14. Cyclops Short-Circuits 15. Whispers of Twisted Lies 16. A Thousand Flying Demons 17. The Burden of Freedom 18. What the Heck Is That? 19. A Crazy, Desperate Shot in the Dark 20. Viva La Revolution 21. Eccentric but Effective 22. The Best Kind of Revenge 23. Walking on Eggshells 24. There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Win 25. My Own Personal Colony 26. Into Psycho-ville 27. A New Earth 28. A Well-Earned Happy Ending Pronunciation Guide Acknowledgements Special Thanks to Kickstarter Backers About the Author Connect with Cami Title Page Copyright Books by Cami Murdock Jensen Contents Beginning About the Author False Earth Book Five in the Arch Mage Series Cami Murdock Jensen False Earth © 2022 Cami Murdock Jensen All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. Cover design by MiblArt Cover art by Sarah Keele Book logo by Chris Murdock Interior and eBook design by Adam McLain Edited by Adam McLain, amclain.com Paperback ISBN: 979-8-88796-004-3 Hardback ISBN: 979-8-88796-007-4 Ebook ISBN: 979-8-88796-003-6 To Mom— who taught me the magical combination of creativity, hard work and study. Throw in a little faith, and no task, trial, or misery is beyond defeat. Thank you, Mom. I miss you. Books by Cami Murdock Jensen The Arch Mage Series First Earth Second Earth Third Earth Fourth Earth False Earth Musicals by Cami Murdock Jensen Castles and Dragons Robin Hood: Tales of Ye Merry Woode Sleeping Beauty The Impossible Mystery Way Out West Contents 1. Agnes Ann Cavanaugh—Cockroach 2. A Super-Secret Spy 3. Unwitting Allies 4. Over the Edge 5. My Nasty New Tour Guide 6. Swallowed . . . Again 7. The Final Task 8. Amrak 9. Tainted Magic Torture 10. An Unfortunate Change of Guard 11. Jailbreak or Die 12. Three . . . Two . . . One . . . Contact! 13. Not Alone for Reals 14. Cyclops Short-Circuits 15. Whispers of Twisted Lies 16. A Thousand Flying Demons 17. The Burden of Freedom 18. What the Heck Is That? 19. A Crazy, Desperate Shot in the Dark 20. Viva La Revolution 21. Eccentric but Effective 22. The Best Kind of Revenge 23. Walking on Eggshells 24. There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Win 25. My Own Personal Colony 26. Into Psycho-ville 27. A New Earth 28. A Well-Earned Happy Ending Pronunciation Guide Acknowledgements About the Author Connect with Cami 1 Agnes Ann Cavanaugh—Cockroach An ominous, persistent schhhlep thump, schhhlep thump rang between the stone walls of Sharir’s fortress and piqued my fight-or-flight instinct. Stumpy’s uneven, hind-legged gait neared as his demon-doggy snout panted and sniffed the stale air. Drat it all. He must have noticed the armful of jellied fat missing from the giant table. He’d catch me red-handed. For the umpteenth time, I wondered what sick twist of fate laid the future of the universe on the shoulders of a skinny, scarred, teenage girl from a planet that banned magic. I grew up in Melrose, Massachusetts, for cripe’s sake. How was I supposed to survive on a demon prison planet? Crap. This wasn’t the time to ponder my derailed destiny. Time to run. The bits of fur I’d wrapped around my mesh armor boots muffled most of the sound of my running on the dark stone, but the sound didn’t matter. Stumpy hunted with his insane sense of smell. Safety lay just around the corner beneath a rusty drain grate set in the center of the stone floor of the fortress’s mess hall. At least, it might be a mess hall. Maybe it was just a huge slaughterhouse. Either way, it had tables as tall as motor homes, a solid butcher’s block the size of a bus, fireplaces, and enormous iron kettles. Twenty-seven days ago, the overlord of demons and all-around jerkface Sharir brought me to this space purgatory called the Nia Nega Abyss and robbed me of my truth magic. I escaped through a crack in his floor. Hiding like a roach inside the hollow stone walls, I cried for my family, my friends, my awesome boyfriend, Temnon, and my magic. With crusty tears dried on my face, I had curled up into a ball, expecting to die from sheer sadness. But, contrary to the plotlines of cheesy romance novels, sadness isn’t fatal. Starvation is, though. Twenty-five days ago, my stomach overrode my emotions, and hunger drove me to