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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.

Text copyright © 2020 by Cassandra Clare, LLC

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The text for this book was set in Dolly.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Clare, Cassandra, author.

Title: Chain of gold / Cassandra Clare.

Description: First edition. | New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] | Series: The last hours ; book 1 | Audience: Ages 14 up. | Audience: Grades 10–12. | Summary: Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019032235 (print) | LCCN 2019032236 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481431873 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481431897 (eBook)

Subjects: CYAC: Supernatural—Fiction. | Demonology—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | London (England)—History—20th century—Fiction. | Great Britain—History—Edward VII, 1901–1910—Fiction. Classification: LCC PZ7.C5265 Ch 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.C5265 (eBook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032235

LC eBook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032236