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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The Library of Congress has cataloged the paperback edition as follows:
Pike, Christopher, 1955–, author.
Strange girl / by Christopher Pike. — First Simon Pulse paperback edition.
p. cm.
Summary: Told from the perspective of a seventeen-year-old boy in love with a mysterious girl who seems to have an unearthly ability to heal, but the ability carries quite a cost.
[1. Love—Fiction. 2. Supernatural—Fiction. 3. Healers—Fiction. 4. Goddesses—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P626St 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2015012476
ISBN 978-1-4814-5059-1 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4814-5058-4 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4814-5060-7 (eBook)