BEAST HEART. Copyright © 2020 by Kyle Richardson.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Richardson, Kyle, author.

Title: Beast heart / Kyle Richardson.

Description: Atlanta : Meerkat Press, LLC, [2020] | Series: The steambound trilogy ; book 1 | Summary: Gabby, who uses her clockwork glove to kill monsters like those that killed her mother, teams up with Kemple, who is trying to salvage the little humanity he has left, against a mysterious hunter.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019055243 (print) | LCCN 2019055244 (ebook) | ISBN 9781946154354 (paperback) | ISBN 9781946154361 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Monsters--Fiction. | Shapeshifting--Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers--Fiction. | Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R53324 Be 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.R53324 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055243

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055244

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

Published in the United States of America by

Meerkat Press, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia

www.meerkatpress.com

Cover and book design by Tricia Reeks