The Gathering Dark (45 page)

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LSO BY
C
HRISTINE
J
OHNSON

Claire de Lune

Nocturne

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition February 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Johnson, Christine, 1978–

The gathering dark / Christine Johnson. — 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.

p. cm.

Summary: A gifted pianist discovers that she and the mysterious boy she’s falling for are part of an alternate world made from dark matter, and in a race of love against fear, she must somehow save her life without losing herself.

ISBN 978-1-4424-3903-0

[1. Fantasy. 2. Musicians—Fiction. 3. Love—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.J63092Gat 2013

[Fic]—dc23 2012008121

ISBN 978-1-4424-3905-4 (eBook)