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Copyright

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

Copyright © 2018 by Claire North

Excerpt from One of Us copyright © 2018 by Craig DiLouie

Excerpt from The Ship copyright © 2017 by Antonia Honeywell

Author photograph by Siobhan Watts

Cover design by Duncan Spilling—LBBG

Cover butterfly image © Plainpicture/Nature PL/Stephen Dalton

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Simultaneously published in Great Britain and the U.S. by Orbit in 2018

First Edition: May 2018

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018933156

ISBNs: 978-0-316-31680-4 (trade paperback), 978-0-316-31678-1 (ebook)

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