The Gorgons Gaze # 2 (Companions Quartet)
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Authors: Julia Golding
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2006 by Julia Golding
Illustration copyright © 2006 by David Wyatt
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Golding, Julia.
The Gorgon’s gaze / by Julia Golding; [illustrations by David Wyatt]—
1st Marshall Cavendish ed.
p. cm.—(Companions quartet; bk. 2)
Summary: Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col’s mother, the gorgon’s supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development—even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
ISBN 978-0-7614-5377-2
[1. Gorgons (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 2. Animals, Mythical—Fiction. 3. Human-animal communication—Fiction. 4. Environmental protection—Fiction. 5. Secret societies—Fiction. 6. Supernatural—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.
PZ7.G56758Gor 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2006102919
Book design by Vera Soki
First Marshall Cavendish edition, 2007
Originally published in the UK by Oxford University Press, 2006
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Also by Julia Golding
The Companions Quartet, Book One:
Secret of the Sirens
For Joss
Gorgon:
(from classical mythology) One of three mythical female personages, with snakes for hair, whose look turned the beholder into stone.
The one of most note, and the only one mortal, Medusa, was slain by Perseus.
(from
The Oxford English Dictionary
, by permission of Oxford University Press)
