The Fall

The Fall
Laura Liddell Nolen

The epic conclusion to Laura Liddell Nolen’s interplanetary YA adventure The Ark TrilogyAll that Char fought for has been destroyed.Her family are lost. And as the Arks carrying the last of humanity move through deep space, she is a prisoner once again, at the mercy of Adam and Zhao.But this is not the first time that Char has lost everything.Drawing on all of her skills and strength, she struggles to escape and fight back. And with the planet of Eirena fast approaching, Char knows that she is fighting not just for her own survival, but for the fate of humanity’s new home.

The Fall

LAURA LIDDELL NOLEN

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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2018

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Source ISBN: 9780008181482

Ebook Edition © December 2017 ISBN: 9780008113643

Version: 2017-12-11

for Oscar

Others, so far as I can understand, have been taken by him, as well as we; and yet have escaped out of his hand. Who knows, but the God that made the world may cause that Giant Despair may die? or that, at some time or other, he may forget to lock us in?

—The Pilgrim’s Progress

Table of Contents

Cover (#ub93d68c2-231f-5e5c-a041-fc66461db63f)

Title Page (#ueb56f989-39c9-5367-8ca0-68b687daf66b)

Copyright (#uc99457d2-3416-5a77-b3c1-a2d280723694)

Dedication (#uea10a042-cf1b-5522-9ccc-95a01efdaa6d)

Epigraph (#uf2d60c18-8c6c-5ff3-8d4f-82b674322baf)

Chapter One (#u4aa210b7-84be-53c7-8a2e-0b61617daafa)

Chapter Two (#u1d3a75b9-c5b1-5b58-869c-9fd2dbe76ab4)

Chapter Three (#u8a363662-80e3-5c65-a6ac-25001b646aaf)

Chapter Four (#u9d67a980-bf31-54a5-8cd3-80085a2e2f95)

Chapter Five (#u87c043fa-9a4e-550e-9e97-1d53517ab297)

Chapter Six (#ucc37d362-9308-5968-b0de-a5b5092f9b9c)

Chapter Seven (#ucc84d34f-793c-52d3-835d-dcc3bc2dc81a)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)