Rebecca Lim - Exile

Godspeed, I hear him murmur before I find myself falling out of this life, into another . . .

Of course, this book wouldn’t have been possible without the love and support of Michael, Oscar, Leni and Yve.

Thanks also to Lisa Berryman, Rachel Denwood, Carla Alonzi, Natalie Costa Bir, Elizabeth Ryley and Nicola O’Shea for their expertise, professionalism, wisdom and good humour, and to Cristina Cappelluto, Shona Martyn and Evangeline for believing there was something to Mercy in the first place.

To Chris O’Connor of the Primitive Radio Gods — thank you for the music. And the words.

Thanks to the marvellous Catherine Onder and Stephanie Lurie at Hyperion-Disney and my excellent editorial and publishing team at Ravensburger Buchverlag.

Thanks also to Libby Callinan for tips on grammar, Shakespeare and quiche over the years.

And gratias ago, Norma Pill, for giving Mercy more facility with Latin than she is entitled to have, and for pointing out stubborn instances of the Toorak nominative.

Also by Rebecca Lim

Mercy Muse (2011) Fury (2012)

Mercy ‘wakes’ on a school bus bound for Paradise, a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business — or thinks they do. But they will never guess the secret Mercy is hiding . . .

As an angel exiled from heaven and doomed to return repeatedly to Earth, Mercy is never sure whose life and body she will share each time. And her mind is filled with the desperate pleas of her beloved, Luc, who can only approach her in her dreams.

In Paradise, Mercy meets Ryan, whose sister was kidnapped two years ago and is now presumed dead. When another girl disappears, Mercy and Ryan know they must act before time runs out. But a host of angels are out for Mercy’s blood and they won't rest until they find her and punish her — for a crime she doesn't remember committing . . .

An electric combination of angels, mystery and romance, Mercy is the first book in a major new series.

Text copyright © Rebecca Lim 2011

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