Supervision

Supervision
Alison Stine

Something is wrong with Esmé.

Kicked out of school in New York, her sister sends her to live with their grandmother in the small town she hasn’t visited since she was a child.

But something is wrong with the grandmother Ez hasn’t seen for years; she leaves the house at midnight, carrying a big black bag.

Something is wrong with her grandmother’s house, a decrepit mansion full of stray cats, stairs that lead to nowhere and beds that unmake themselves.

Something is wrong in the town where a child disappears every year, where a whistle sounds at night but no train arrives.

And something is definitely wrong with her cute and friendly neighbour with black curls and ice-blue eyes: he’s dead.

Supervision

ALISON STINE

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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2015

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Ebook Edition © April 2015 ISBN: 978-0-00-811359-9

Version: 2015-03-09

For my mom, who taught me how to read—and for Henry, who is a Story

Table of Contents

Cover (#u2ac8b510-b528-5bdf-9f93-ccd34a7beb03)

Title Page (#uef56c926-1d5c-57df-a343-a9e37aead218)

Copyright (#ufc6e8b45-0bf7-5b9f-a758-3db992e1f24f)

Dedication (#ufc76001c-0fce-50ed-a5f2-a5a3a9af6de3)

CHAPTER 1: Acid Loves You (#uabbdf631-4340-53a4-9f22-f87601de720e)

CHAPTER 2: Wellstone (#u5ebce5f5-77b5-5c6a-99d7-5b3ab70dc641)

CHAPTER 3: Six Feet (#u0a85077b-8a46-5210-8ec2-7b5e63bb02f5)

CHAPTER 4: I’m Alive (#ua1b3ac55-7ace-5239-9fe6-359d65e6def1)

CHAPTER 5: Death Beginning (#ud9997823-fdd2-5167-abb3-fa68bc068f17)

CHAPTER 6: Sensitive One (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 7: Riding Too Long (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 8: Wickedness and Snares (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 9: What Do You Want? (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 10: Can You See Me? (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 11: Mixed Up (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 12: Door to Nowhere (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 13: Dance or Die (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 14: Mr. Black (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 15: The Lower Vale (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 16: A Nice Dare (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 17: The Gift at the Table (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 18: Red Shoes (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 19: It’s Easy to Dye (#litres_trial_promo)