Odd Interlude

Odd Interlude
Dean Koontz

Small-town guy meets big-time evil… A spine-tingling Odd Thomas novella.THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN, BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT…Odd Thomas and Annamaria need a break from the road. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific Coast, the warm lights of Harmony Corner welcome them in. The quaint roadside outpost offers everything a weary traveller desires – a cosy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms … and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all.But Odd has a bad feeling about this place. There’s more to the secluded haven than meets the eye – and between life and death there is something more frightening than either. Odd has faced evil many times and he will face it again before the night is over…

Odd Interlude

Dean Koontz

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u40593175-6c4a-5417-bb08-ef97ccd9e89b)

Part One: South of Moonlight Bay (#u9f494d90-18ba-54a1-8050-deb6a11f0283)

Chapter One (#ubeae65a6-c91a-5269-847f-c45d3fc0ad9c)

Chapter Two (#uad8186c3-e90c-5d51-943e-b633f90f1ca7)

Chapter Three (#u05320001-d986-5cbf-9b41-c82265191b95)

Chapter Four (#u993718ce-572d-5362-8e85-3ef726893ac9)

Chapter Five (#ubffad1a2-1a29-5e4c-b8ae-3dfd87ab7617)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: Two-Part Harmony (#litres_trial_promo)

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)

Part Three: In the Corner (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Dean Koontz (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PART ONE (#ulink_8c72cfa4-422b-573d-8946-f3c2befb41b4)

South of Moonlight Bay (#ulink_8c72cfa4-422b-573d-8946-f3c2befb41b4)

Oh! They’re too beautiful to live,

much too beautiful.

—Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

One (#ulink_11c23be6-cad1-54a8-a60c-77e1b7f43052)

THEY SAY THAT EVERY ROAD LEADS HOME IF you care to go there. I long for home, for the town of Pico Mundo and the desert in which it blooms, but the roads that I take seem to lead me to one hell after another.

In the front passenger seat of the Mercedes, through the side window, I watch the stars, which appear to be fixed but in fact are ever moving and perpetually receding. They seem eternal, but they are only suns that will burn out one day.

When she was just a child, Stormy Llewellyn lost her mother, Cassiopeia. I lost Stormy when she and I were twenty. One of the northern constellations is called Cassiopeia. No group of distant suns is named for Stormy.