Poison Princess (53 page)

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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 © 2012 by Kresley Cole

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cole, Kresley.

Poison princess / Kresley Cole. — 1st ed.

p. cm. — (The Arcana chronicles ; [1])

Summary: In the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, sixteen-year-old Evie, from a well-to-do Louisiana family, learns that her terrible visions are actually prophecies and that there are others like herself—embodiments of Tarot cards destined to engage in an epic battle.

ISBN 978-1-4424-3664-0 (hardback)

[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Ability—Fiction. 3. Prophecies—Fiction. 4. Tarot—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.C673494Poi 2012

[Fic]—dc23

2012000919

ISBN 978-1-4424-3666-4 (eBook)