The Essence (37 page)
Authors: Kimberly Derting
Portrait of Anna þóra Alfredsdóttir copyright © 2011
by Ugla Hauksdóttir
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Simon & Schuster, New York
Ages 14 up
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Kimberly Derting
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Derting, Kimberly.
The essence : a Pledge novel / Kimberly Derting.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Charlaina “Charlie” Hart has defeated the tyrant Queen Sabara and taken control of Ludania, only to have Sabara’s soul fuse itself with her own.
ISBN 978-1-4424-4559-8
ISBN 978-1-4424-4561-1 (eBook)
[1. Fantasy. 2. Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction. 3. Soul—Fiction. 4. Language and languages—Fiction. 5. Social classes—Fiction. 6. Ability—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D4468Ess 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012012656
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