Odd Hours

and in the mother I saw also the daughter, there above, beautiful and bright, for all eternity, her timeless light shining upon me, until one day I at last stepped out of time and joined her.

 

 
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    DEAN KOONTZ is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives with his wife, Gerda, and the enduring spirit of their golden retriever, Trixie, in southern California.
     
    Correspondence for the author should be addressed to:
    Dean Koontz
    P.O. Box 9529
    Newport Beach, California 92658

 
    ALSO BY DEAN KOONTZ
    The Darkest Evening of the Year • The Good Guy • Brother Odd • The Husband • Forever Odd • Velocity • Life Expectancy • The Taking • Odd Thomas • The Face • By the Light of the Moon • One Door Away From Heaven • From the Corner of His Eye • False Memory • Seize the Night • Fear Nothing • Mr. Murder • Dragon Tears • Hideaway • Cold Fire • The Bad Place • Midnight • Lightning • Watchers • Strangers • Twilight Eyes • Darkfall • Phantoms • Whispers • The Mask • The Vision • The Face of Fear • Night Chills • Shattered • The Voice of the Night • The Servants of Twilight • The House of Thunder • The Key to Midnight • The Eyes of Darkness • Shadowfires • Winter Moon • The Door to December • Dark Rivers of the Heart • Icebound • Strange Highways • Intensity • Sole Survivor • Ticktock • The Funhouse • Demon Seed

    DEAN KOONTZ’S FRANKENSTEIN
    Book One: Prodigal Son • with Kevin J. Anderson
    Book Two: City of Night • with Ed Gorman

 

    ODD HOURS
    A Bantam Book / June 2008

    Published by Bantam Dell
    A Division of Random House, Inc.
    New York, New York

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
    Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    All rights reserved.
    Copyright © 2008 by Dean Koontz
    Title page photograph by Lynne Lancaster
    Illustration on Backmatter: YOU ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER. © 2003 by Phil Parks

    A signed, limited edition has been privately printed by Charnel House.
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    Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945–Odd hours / Dean Koontz.
    p.  cm.
    eISBN: 978-0-553-90501-4
    1. Cooks—Fiction 2. Mediums—Fiction. I. TItle
    PS3561.O55 O3 2008
    813'.54 22     2008010411

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