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Sweet Venom

Copyright © 2011 by Tera Lynn Childs


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Childs, Tera Lynn.

    Sweet venom / Tera Lynn Childs. — 1st ed.

        p. cm.

    Summary: As monsters walk the streets of San Francisco, unseen by humans, three teenaged descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned in Greek mythology, must reunite and embrace their fates.

    ISBN 978-0-06-200181-8 (trade bdg.)

    [1. Fate and fatalism—Fiction. 2. Medusa (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 3. Mythology, Greek—Fiction. 4. Monsters—Fiction. 5. Sisters—Fiction. 6. San Francisco (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C44185Sw 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010050525

CIP

AC


EPub Edition © AUGUST 2011 ISBN: 9780062093455

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