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 November 2017

Text copyright © 2017 by Sarah Raughley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Raughley, Sarah, author.

Title: Siege of shadows / by Sarah Raughley.

Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. |

New York : Simon Pulse, 2017. | Series: The Effigies ; book two |

Summary: After Saul reappears with an army of soldiers with Effigy-like abilities,

threatening to unleash the monstrous Phantoms and bring death and

destruction to the world, eighteen-year-old Maia and the other Effigies

hope to defeat him by discovering the source of their power over the

four classical elements, but they are betrayed by the Sect and bogged down

by questions about the previous Fire Effigy’s murder.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017012151 (print) | LCCN 2017038207 (eBook) |

ISBN 9781481466820 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481466806 (hardcover)

Subjects: | CYAC: Four elements (Philosophy)—Fiction. |

Superheroes—Fiction. | Psychic ability—Fiction. | Soldiers—Fiction. |

Monsters—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction. | Fantasy. | Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R38 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.1.R38 Si 2017 (print) |

DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012151