The Silver Kiss (24 page)

A
NNETTE
C
URTIS
K
LAUSE
was born in Bristol, England, and moved to the United States when she was a teenager. She daydreamed constantly while growing up, and she turned some of those fantasies into stories and poems. Her first novel was inspired by vampire poems she wrote when she was fifteen years old. Annette currently lives in the Maryland suburbs with her husband and cats and works full-time as a children's librarian—but in her imagination, she's a werewolf girl. Sometimes she forgets herself and howls out loud.

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.

The Silver Kiss
copyright © 1990 by Annette Curtis Klause
“The Summer of Love” copyright © 2001 by Annette Curtis Klause
“The Christmas Cat” copyright © 2009 by Annette Curtis Klause

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
The Silver Kiss
was originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press in 1990. Published here with two short stories, “The Summer of Love” and “The Christmas Cat.”

Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

“The Summer of Love” was originally published in
The Color of Absence
, edited by James Howe, published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
New York, in 2001.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-75444-8

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