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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Preston, Natasha, author.

Title: The lost / Natasha Preston.

Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2019] | Summary: While investigating the disappearance of one of their classmates, Piper and Hazel are kidnapped and taken to a building designed to keep them locked away, where every room is a method of torture and a test of survival.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018052409 | (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: | CYAC: Kidnapping--Fiction. | Survival--Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.P9234 Lo 2019 | DDC [Fic]--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052409