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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971– author.
Title: The Queen’s assassin / Melissa de la Cruz.
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2020]
Summary: “The Queen’s Assassin is forced to take on a mysterious apprentice
on his most dangerous mission yet, pulling them both into a vicious
web of secrets and lies”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019005524 | ISBN 9780525515913 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9780525515920 (ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Assassins—Fiction. | Kings, queens, rulers—Fiction. |
Apprentices—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction. | Fantasy.
Classification: LCC PZ7.D36967 Que 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019005524
Ebook ISBN 9780525515920
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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