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The Towering Sky
Katharine McGee
The final book in Katharine McGee's epic The Thousandth Floor series.It's New York City, 2118.In Manhattan’s glamorous thousand-story supertower, millions of people are living scandalous lives. Leda, Watt, Rylin, Avery, and Calliope are all struggling to hide the biggest secrets of all, secrets that could destroy everything, and send their perfect worlds toppling over the edge.Because every rise has a fall.With all the drama, romance and hidden secrets from The Thousandth Floor and The Dazzling Heights, this explosive finale will not disappoint.
First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 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: 9780008179915
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Version: 2018-08-20
For Deedo, and in loving memory of Snake
CONTENTS
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Title Page (#uea898371-2c2b-5627-af29-3e1ff4ed6c98)
Copyright (#ubcf0ee78-ef82-51f4-8718-f549fd275e8d)
Dedication (#uf6352bd8-f03e-5a1a-8721-38175669814c)
Prologue (#ulink_cee7e4f3-20ad-53db-a728-3178df360a41)
Avery (#ulink_f9660533-499f-5c96-8b72-bab97d4d9c98)
Leda (#ulink_48558e4d-716e-571f-88f1-4bd679f578ab)
Calliope (#ulink_25172f78-680d-5c71-8b0e-5ddb38bbe031)
Watt (#ulink_550b2787-6940-5190-843c-67e97f95e635)
Rylin (#ulink_76b4d164-b877-5e07-961b-cbdf4f624dc6)
Avery (#ulink_6db7a98f-f8fc-5948-8b69-9b255b0b1db4)
Calliope (#ulink_74b618e5-2a74-5d14-9f51-18feab9eb90b)
Rylin (#ulink_148bafe9-1ad6-5311-beee-80d2687e6bd5)
Leda (#ulink_cacbc787-d7d4-5386-86e7-6905c2b28f7c)
Watt (#ulink_4890385f-c5d8-5169-9cf8-f83f51b7ed98)
Avery (#ulink_f3a66d4d-0aa1-56de-958f-ba4cfbebed4d)
Calliope (#ulink_16774bf3-1821-5f07-a1ee-6db2d03e061d)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Avery (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Leda (#litres_trial_promo)
Calliope (#litres_trial_promo)
Rylin (#litres_trial_promo)
Watt (#litres_trial_promo)
Atlas (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Books by Katharine McGee (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE (#ulink_e7d4cc15-adfb-5aac-9d7c-d50aeedf0001)
December 2119
THERE HAS ALWAYS been something otherworldly about the first snow of the year in New York.
It gilds the city’s flaws, its hard edges, transforming Manhattan into a proud, glittering northern place. Magic hangs heavy in the air. On the morning of the first snow, even the most jaded New Yorkers pause in the streets to look up at the sky, stilled by a quiet sense of awe. As if every hot summer they forgot that this was possible, and only when the first flakes of snow kiss their faces can they believe in it again.
It seems almost that the snowfall might wash the city clean, reveal all the monstrous secrets buried beneath its surface.
But then, some secrets are best kept buried.
It was on one of these mornings of cold, enchanted silence that a girl stood on the roof of Manhattan’s enormous skyscraper.
She stepped closer to the edge, and the wind whipped at her hair. Snowflakes danced around her in splintered crystals. Her skin glowed like an overexposed hologram in the predawn light. If anyone had been up there to see her, they would have said that she looked troubled, and sharply beautiful. And afraid.
She hadn’t been on the roof in over a year, yet it looked the same as ever. Photovoltaic panels huddled on its surface, waiting to drink in the sun and convert it to usable power. An enormous steel spire twisted up to collide with the sky. And below her hummed an entire city—a thousand-story tower, teeming with millions of people.
Some of them she had loved, some of them she had resented. Many she had never known at all. Yet in their own ways they had betrayed her, every last one of them. They had made her life unbearable by depriving her of the one person she had ever loved.
The girl knew she’d been up here too long. She was starting to feel the familiar slippery light-headedness as her body slowed down, struggling to adjust to the decreased oxygen, to pull resources in toward her core. She curled her toes. They were numb. The air downstairs was oxygenated and infused with vitamins, but here on the roof it felt whip-thin.
