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Defy the Dark, an all-new anthology, features 16 stories by critically-acclaimed and bestselling YA authors as they explore things that can only happen in the dark. Authors include Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Hawkins, Carrie Ryan, Aprilynne Pike, Malinda Lo, Courtney Summers, Beth Revis, Sarah Ockler, and more.

There was a promising glow hovering above the dark eastern horizon that morning as my brother Orville and I pushed our little skiff into the rippling current. We paddled upriver for an hour or more, in search of some cat-fishing. We dropped anchor near a stand of weeping willow trees and baited our hooks.