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

Text copyright © 2013 by Amy Christine Parker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Parker, Amy Christine.
Gated / Amy Christine Parker. — First edition.
p. cm

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lyla doesn’t trust the charismatic leader of her isolated suburban community when he is told that the end of the world is near and when it arrives they must all be ready to defend themselves against the unchosen.

eISBN: 978-0-449-81599-1

[1. Utopias—Fiction. 2. Survival—Fiction. 3. Cults—Fiction.

4. Religious leaders—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.P22165Gat 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2012048123

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