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The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.
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THE HOST Stephenie Meyer
ALSO BYSTEPHENIEMEYER Twilight New Moon Eclipse
Copyright © 2008 by Stephenie Meyer All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group USA 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Visit our Web site atwww.HachetteBookGroupUSA.com First eBook Edition: May 2008 The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. The author is grateful for permission to reprint the poem “Question” fromNature: Poems Old and New,by May Swenson. Copyright © 1994 by The Literary Estate of May Swenson. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-316-03232-2
Contents Prologue: Inserted Chapter 1: Remembered Chapter 2: Overheard Chapter 3: Resisted Chapter 4: Dreamed Chapter 5: Uncomforted Chapter 6: Followed Chapter 7: Confronted Chapter 8: Loved Chapter 9: Discovered Chapter 10: Turned Chapter 11: Dehydrated Chapter 12: Failed Chapter 13: Sentenced Chapter 14: Disputed Chapter 15: Guarded Chapter 16: Assigned Chapter 17: Visited Chapter 18: Bored Chapter 19: Abandoned Chapter 20: Freed
Chapter 21: Named Chapter 22: Cracked Chapter 23: Confessed Chapter 24: Tolerated Chapter 25: Compelled Chapter 26: Returned Chapter 27: Undecided Chapter 28: Unenlightened Chapter 29: Betrayed Chapter 30: Abbreviated Chapter 31: Needed Chapter 32: Ambushed Chapter 33: Doubted Chapter 34: Buried Chapter 35: Tried Chapter 36: Believed Chapter 37: Wanted Chapter 38: Touched Chapter 39: Worried Chapter 40: Horrified Chapter 41: Vanished Chapter 42: Forced
Chapter 43: Frenzied Chapter 44: Healed Chapter 45: Succeeded Chapter 46: Encircled Chapter 47: Employed Chapter 48: Detained Chapter 49: Interrogated Chapter 50: Sacrificed Chapter 51: Prepared Chapter 52: Separated Chapter 53: Condemned Chapter 54: Forgotten Chapter 55: Attached Chapter 56: Welded Chapter 57: Completed Chapter 58: Finished Chapter 59: Remembered Epilogue: Continued About the Author
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