A Beautiful Dark

be fixed, when.
    The whole team at Harper, but especially: Elise Howard, for the inspiration and the leap of faith; Susan Katz and Kate Jackson for your support; the powerhouse marketing, publicity, and sub rights teams; Erin Fitzsimmons, for the unbelievably gorgeous and thoughtful design. Also Ray Shappell, for spending a whole day with me waiting for the perfect lighting.
    My publishing families at HarperCollins and Penguin, for inspiring, conspiring, listening, encouraging, understanding, commiserating, and jumping for joy with me on a daily basis.
    Rachel Abrams, for talking with me about this book more than any reasonable person should have to.
    My endlessly talented, amazingly supportive (not to mention witty and charming) writer friends in New York.
    The Elevensies, and all of my new online friends, for sharing the journey with me.
    Micol Ostow, for first making me realize I could be a published author.
    Jessica Regel, for believing in me and being so, so patient.
    Kari Sutherland and Shelby Trenkelbach, for your creativity, imagination, and brainstorming prowess (for which I’m endlessly grateful)!
    My friends—near and far—for providing hugs, meals, bus trips, distractions, wine, big blue to crash on when I needed to get away, dancing, laughing, Lloves with two Ls, and being the very best of people, always, no matter what.
    My sister, Shelby Davies, for things too numerous to list, and too important to try. That’s for the book we’ll cowrite.
    And my parents, Jody and Lee Davies, with love and gratitude and everything else that can’t be put into words.

Credits

    Jacket art © 2011 by Colin Anderson
    Jacket design by Erin Fitzsimmons

Copyright

    A Beautiful Dark
    Copyright © 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
    ISBN 978-0-06-199065-6
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    Typography by Erin Fitzsimmons
    EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062093189
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