The Angel Maker


 Contents
 
 Title Page
 Copyright Notice
 Dedication
 Prologue
 Part One
 
 Chapter One
 Chapter Two
 Chapter Three
 Chapter Four
 Chapter Five
 Chapter Six
 Chapter Seven
 
 Part Two
 
 Chapter Eight
 Chapter Nine
 Chapter Ten
 Chapter Eleven
 Chapter Twelve
 Chapter Thirteen
 Chapter Fourteen
 Chapter Fifteen
 Chapter Sixteen
 Chapter Seventeen
 Chapter Eighteen
 Chapter Nineteen
 
 Part Three
 
 Chapter Twenty
 Chapter Thirty-one
 Chapter Thirty-two
 Chapter Thirty-three
 Chapter Thirty-four
 Chapter Thirty-five
 Chapter Thirty-six
 Chapter Thirty-seven
 
 Part Four
 
 Chapter Thirty-eight
 Chapter Thirty-nine
 Chapter Thirty
 Chapter Thirty-one
 Chapter Thirty-two
 Chapter Thirty-three
 Chapter Thirty-four
 Chapter Thirty-five
 Chapter Thirty-six
 Chapter Thirty-seven
 Chapter Thirty-eight
 Chapter Thirty-nine
 Chapter Forty
 Chapter Forty-one
 Chapter Forty-two
 Chapter Forty-three
 Chapter Forty-four
 Chapter Forty-five
 Chapter Forty-six
 Chapter Forty-seven
 Chapter Forty-eight
 Chapter Forty-nine
 Chapter Fifty
 
 Acknowledgments
 Also by Alex North
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 For Lynn and Zack
 
 
 
 Prologue
 
 “If you could see the future,” Sam asked her, “would you want to?”
 It was the end of the day, and they were sitting outside the school building. There was a roundabout there with a stone edge and a circle of flower beds in the center, and Sam and Katie met there every afternoon at the end of lessons. They were seventeen years old. As teenagers do, they sat and gossiped. They complained about her parents.
 They asked each other questions.
 If you could see the future, would you want to?
 Katie thought about that. It was exactly the kind of question that had made her fall in love with Sam in the first place, but in that moment it made her uneasy. Sam was handsome and charismatic—full of talent and ambition—and for some unfathomable reason, he seemed to be in love with her as well. That made her happy, of course, but she was also frightened of losing him. Next year they would both be going away to different universities, and that upcoming separation felt like a threat looming on the horizon.
 What was going to happen to them then?
 “Katie?” Sam prompted.
 “I don’t know.”
 “Why not?”
 “Because what if you saw something you didn’t like?”
 “Then you’d be able to change it.”
 “Maybe.”
 It was a warm afternoon with only the slightest of breezes. She watched as a group of kids drifted past them, hitching their bags up on their shoulders, talking and laughing. They were heading down the sunlit drive that led to the nearby village, while others were wandering away toward the bus stop. It was a reminder that she and Sam would have to part ways shortly. Katie lived close to the school, whereas his house was a bus journey away.
 For a long time, Katie had felt like a spare tire in her family; it was her younger brother, Chris, whom her parents doted on. But over the last year, Sam had made her parents a lot more interested in her life than they had been previously. Her mother, especially, was suspicious of him and overly keen to monitor their relationship and keep it from going too far. If Katie was not home on time after school, there would be questions. At weekends, she and Sam were not allowed to be alone together. If Katie went to his house, her mother was always careful to ensure his parents were home too.
 The resentment that caused had been growing steadily, simmering away inside her, a little hotter every day.