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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thank you, Mom, for being my best friend—love you always.

  Thank you, Mississippi, for being my home and my favorite place in the world.

  Thank you, Katie Anderson, for being a great friend and looking out for me.

  Thank you, Clay McLeod. I won’t forget our crazy adventures in Memphis where we both inspired each other. Don’t lose your rainbow.

  Thank you, Mary Katherine Breland and Jordan Lee Phillips, for being like family. Roll tide!

  Thanks to Jill Grinberg and the team at Feiwel and Friends, for embarking on this three-year journey with me.

  Thank you, God, for inspiring this series and constantly inspiring me.

  FROM HEAVEN TO HELL, AND BACK AGAIN

  Read all the books in Alexandra Adornetto’s HALO trilogy

  HALO

  A New York Times Bestseller

  “Fresh and real.”—The New York Times Book Review

  “These angels are optimistic, hope-filled cousins of the tormented fallen angels in other paranormal romances.… Xavier is gorgeous, honorable, and so protective of Bethany that you’ll be crushing on him after the first chapter.”—Justine magazine

  “A compelling novel of good and evil … and heart-wrenching romance.”—School Library Journal

  HADES

  HEAVEN

  A FEIWEL AND FRIENDS BOOK

  An Imprint of Macmillan

  HEAVEN. Copyright © 2012 by Alexandra Adornetto. All rights reserved.

  Donnelley & Sons Company, Harrisonburg, Virginia. For information, address Feiwel and Friends, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available

  ISBN: 978-0-312-65628-7

  Feiwel and Friends logo designed by Filomena Tuosto

  First Edition: 2012

  eISBN 978-1-466-82582-6

  Table of Contents

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  DEDICATION

  EPIGRAPHS

  TILL DEATH

  RUN , BABY , RUN

  MEN IN BLACK

  THE COVER OF TREES

  WALKING ON WATER

  WE NEED TO TALK

  COLLEGE KIDS

  THE ROOMIE

  STARRY , STARRY N IGHT

  FROM DIXIE , WITH LOVE

  HELLO , STRANGER

  TWISTED SISTER

  HERE COMES THE BRIDE

  SHOWDOWN

  CLASS DISMISSED

  THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD

  BAD TENANT

  THINGS THAT GO BUMP

  OLD WOUNDS

  RAPHAEL

  WE’LL M AKE IT , Y’ALL

  SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD Y OUR PEACE

  I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON’T

  THE BEST-KEPT SECRET

  WATCH ME BURN

  TAKE ME HOME

  HOSTAGE

  THEY TRIED TO MAKE ME GO TO REHAB

  I SEE DEAD PEOPLE

  ZACH

  DARK ANGEL

  TORMENT

  METAMORPHOSIS

  DAYBREAK

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  FROM HEAVEN TO HELL, AND BACK AGAIN

  COPYRIGHT