This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

MENDING THE MOON

Copyright © 2013 by Susan Palwick

All rights reserved.

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill

Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Palwick, Susan.

    Mending the moon / Susan Palwick.—First edition.

        p. cm.

    “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

    ISBN 978-0-7653-2758-1 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4299-8715-8 (e-book)

    1.  Murder victims—Fiction.   2.  Suicide victims—Fiction.   3.  Mothers and sons—Fiction.   4.  Friends—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3566.A554M46 2013

813'.6—dc23

2012043362

e-ISBN 9781429987158

First Edition: May 2013