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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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition October 2017

Text copyright © 2017 by Caitlin Sangster

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Jacket designed by Jessica Handelman

Jacket illustration copyright © 2017 by Aaron Limonick and David Field

Author photo by Sherri Sangster

The text of this book was set in Venetian 301 BT Std.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sangster, Caitlin, author.

Title: Last star burning / by Caitlin Sangster.

Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2017. |

Summary: “To escape execution for a crime she didn’t commit, seventeen-year-old Sev is forced to run away from her city into the wilderness. With nowhere to turn, Sev has to figure out who she can trust in a world where trusting the wrong person could mean not only her life but the lives of everyone she loves”— Provided by publisher. |

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016046285 (print) | LCCN 2017021830 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481486156 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481486132 (hardcover)

Subjects: | CYAC: Epidemics—Fiction. | Fugitives from justice—Fiction. |

Survival—Fiction. | Fantasy.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S263 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.1.S263 Las 2017 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016046285