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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SIMON PULSE

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition February 2020

Text copyright © 2020 by Eva Gibson

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Jacket designed by Laura Eckes, inspired by “Woven Story” by Ines Seidel

Interior designed by Laura Eckes

Jacket designed by Laura Eckes, inspired by “Woven Story” by Ines Seidel

Jacket photograph of metallic string copyright © 2020 by Ines Seidel

Jacket photograph of couple copyright © 2020 by garetsworkshop/Shutterstock

Jacket photographs of paper and string by iStock/kev303, ksushsh, and martijnmulder

Author photograph © 2020 by Joylyn Hannahs Photography

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gibson, Eva V., author.

Title: Together we caught fire / by Eva V. Gibson.

Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2020. | Summary: Eighteen-year-old Lane, still dealing with her mother’s suicide when she was five, must now adjust to her father’s remarriage to Skye, making Lane’s long-term, unrequited crush, Grey, her stepbrother.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019006486 (print) | LCCN 2019009187 (eBook) |

ISBN 9781534450219 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534450233 (eBook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Stepfamilies—Fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Grief—Fiction. | Family life—North Carolina—Asheville—Fiction. | Asheville (N.C.)—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.G339274 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.G339274 Tog 2020 (print) |

DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019006486