Rise of the Darklings

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First published by Egmont USA, 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Crilley, Paul.
Rise of the Darklings / Paul Crilley
p. cm. — (The Invisible Order ; bk. 1)
Summary: After saving a piskie’s life, twelve-year-old Emily Snow finds herself in the middle of a centuries-old war between rival fairy factions and a secret society named The Invisible Order.
eISBN: 978-1-60684-238-6
[1. Secret societies—Fiction. 2. Fairies—Fiction. 3. London (England)—History—1800–1950—Fiction. 4. Great Britain— History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. 5. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.C869276Ri 2010

[Fic]—dc22     2009025150

This novel is based on the short story “The Invisible Order,” which originally appeared in the anthology
Under Cover of Darkness
, published by DAW, 2007.

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v3.1

For my family
,
Caroline, Bella, and Caeleb
.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales
.

—E
PHRAIM
G
OTTHOLD
L
ESSING
(1729–1781)

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again
.

—C. S. L
EWIS
(1898–1963)