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Copyright © 2023 by Peggy Townsend

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Townsend, Peggy, author.

Title: The beautiful and the wild / Peggy Townsend.

Description: New York : Berkley, [2023]

Identifiers: LCCN 2023000964 (print) | LCCN 2023000965 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593638088 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593638095 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Wilderness survival--Fiction. | Alaska--Fiction. | LCGFT: Survival fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3620.O97 B43 2023 (print) | LCC PS3620.O97 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23/eng/20230113

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2023000964

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2023000965

Cover design by David Litman

Cover image of cabin by Karol Majewski / Getty Images

Title page art: Mountain landscape © Galyna Andrushko / Shutterstock

Book design by Alison Cnockaert

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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