The Beautiful and the Damned

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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Interior designed by Paul Weil and Karina Granda

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The text of this book was set in Caslon.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Verday, Jessica.

The beautiful and the damned / Jessica Verday.

p. cm.

Summary: Cyn, a witch, and Avian, executioner of the truly evil, discover that Cyn is an Echo, a conduit for souls of the dead, who will lose control unless she risks her life to vanquish the source of her power in Sleepy Hollow.

ISBN 978-1-4424-8835-9 (hc)

[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Memory—Fiction. 3. Demonology—Fiction. 4. Angels—Fiction. 5. Vampires—Fiction. 6. Dead—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.V5828Be 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2013016758

ISBN 978-1-4424-8839-7 (eBook)