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    The First: A Prequel
    The First: A Prequel
    The First: A Prequel
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    The First: A Prequel

    By Jason Mott

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    A man returns from the dead, to the life and love he left behind one year ago, in this prequel story to the New York Times–bestselling The Returned.

    From the National Book Award–winning author of Hell of a Book

    It’s been just over a year since Edmund Blithe died, and just over a month since his fiancée, Emily, stopped wearing her engagement ring. Emily has finally begun to move on . . . until Edmund mysteriously and inexplicably returns, sending the world—and Emily—into a tailspin.

    Edmund is only just the beginning. Around the world, people’s loved ones are returning from beyond, seeking only to reenter the lives they left behind. As the world dives deep into uncertainty, Emily and Edmund are determined to find their way back to one another . . . even if it means risking everything.

    Don’t miss The Sparrow, where the reappearances continue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781459239081
    The First: A Prequel
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    Jason Mott

    Jason Mott holds a BA in fiction and an MFA in poetry and is the author of two poetry collections. His writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, and he was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. Jason lives in North Carolina.

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    The First - Jason Mott

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    The First

    A Prequel to The Returned

    Jason Mott

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    In Jason Mott’s haunting and unforgettable debut novel, The Returned, an impossible miracle is occurring all across the globe. Read how it all begins in this short story, The First.

    It’s been just over a year since Edmund Blithe died, and just over a month since his fiancée, Emily, stopped wearing her engagement ring. Emily has finally begun to move on... Until Edmund mysteriously and inexplicably returns, sending the world—and Emily—into a tailspin.

    Edmund is only just the beginning. Around the world, people’s loved ones are returning from beyond, seeking only to reenter the lives they left behind. As the world dives deep into uncertainty, Emily and Edmund are determined to find their way back to one another...even if it means risking everything.

    The reappearances continue in The Sparrow, and look for The Returned from Harlequin MIRA, a moving tale of a family given a second chance at life and a world where nothing—not even death—is certain.

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    The First

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    It was just over a year since Edmund died, and just over a month since Emily stopped wearing her engagement ring. She removed it late one night in a fit of insomnia during which the voices of all of her friends and family seemed to come crashing down on her at once, all of them telling her that it was time to let Edmund go. She still carried it with her, tucked away beneath her shirt on the small gold necklace her grandmother had given her when she turned sixteen. Not long after that, her grandmother passed away and Emily hadn’t taken off the necklace since.

    She had never been one for letting go.

    The discolored band around Emily’s finger was finally starting to vanish, and with it the heartache that was left behind by a fiancé she would never get the chance to marry. And now, without explanation or provocation, Edmund was not dead anymore. He was alive somehow, and on the television, standing among a scrum of reporters in front of his office building, looking overwhelmed and confused and afraid.

    Can you believe it? Emily’s mother asked through the phone. She had called Emily in a panic, yelling for her to stop

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