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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

GATE TO KAGOSHIMA. Copyright © 2024 by Poppy Kuroki. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Originally published in Great Britain in 2024 by Oneworld Publications.

FIRST US EDITION

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kuroki, Poppy, 1993- author.

Title: Gate to Kagoshima : a novel / Poppy Kuroki.

Description: First US edition. | New York : Harper Paperbacks, 2025. | Series: Ancestor memories ; book 1

Identifiers: LCCN 2024023649 | ISBN 9780063410879 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780063410893 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Romance fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PR6111.U76 G38 2025 | DDC 823/.92--dc23/eng/20240715

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024023649

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Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2024 ISBN: 978-0-06-341089-3

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Print ISBN: 978-0-06-341087-9