The Mortal Heart (6 page)

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Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are longtime friends and coauthors of the #1
New York Times
bestselling Beautiful Creatures novels. The first book in the series,
Beautiful Creatures
, is now a major motion picture. In addition to writing together, they have written solo series: The Legion Series by Kami Garcia includes the instant
New York Times
bestseller and Bram Stoker Award nominee
Unbreakable
and
Unmarked
; and the Icons series by Margaret Stohl includes
Icons
, which is currently in development as a feature film, and
Idols
. Kami and Margaret invite you to visit them online at kamigarcia.com and margaret-stohl.com.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Kami Garcia, LLC, and Margaret Stohl, Inc.

Cover design by Maggie Edkins

Cover photograph © Andrew Davis / Trevillion Images

Cover © 2015 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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First ebook edition: March 2015

ISBN 978-0-316-30314-9

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