The Collide

The Collide
Kimberly McCreight

The heart-pounding final instalment in the breathtakingly brilliant Outliers trilogy, packed with tension, romance and thrilling twists and turns. From New York Times bestselling author Kimberley McCreight.Wylie Lang now knows that there are more outliers out there – girls just like her who can read other people’s minds – and they need her help.But Wylie’s dad is still missing; and she hasn’t seen her mum since she appeared at the juvenile detention facility where Wylie was being held. Wylie and her brother, Gideon, need to enlist the help of a few old faces to get to the truth, but some are more hostile than others.The final book in the fast-paced trilogy about love, greed and knowing who to trust.

First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers in 2018

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018

Published in this ebook edition in 2018

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Source ISBN: 9780008115104

Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780008115111

Version: 2018-06-19

For all of us,

May we rage on against the dying of the light.

#resist

EPIGRAPH (#u311d5726-8611-5a67-9f5e-64f9a609fad5)

To the wrongs that need resistance,

To the right that needs assistance,

To the future in the distance,

Give yourselves.

—Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947),

President, National American Woman Suffrage Association

CONTENTS

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Title Page (#u659fd0ec-150e-5060-b186-57b27e1731a4)

Copyright (#uaf3d569c-becd-567c-82d2-7805b7569879)

Dedication (#u2dd19301-b767-5c3a-a1cb-f4d8d7cc759c)

Epigraph

Author’s Note

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