Long Dark Dusk

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First published in the United States by Quercus in 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smythe, J. P. (James P.), 1980– author.

Title: Long dark dusk / J.P. Smythe.

Description: First edition. | New York : Quercus, 2017. | Series: The Australia trilogy ; book 2 | Summary: When the violent intersteller transport ship Australia crashes back to Earth, seventeen-year-old Chan finds herself living in poverty on a planet she has never known but always dreamed of, and as she tries to muster the will to survive, Chan learns that Mae, the little girl she once rescued on Australia, could be alive.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S6572 Lo 2017 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.S6572 (ebook)| DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016037522

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