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

Copyright © 2024 by Kelly Link

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

Random House and the House colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Link, Kelly, author.

Title: The book of love : a novel / Kelly Link.

Description: New York : Random House, [2024]

Identifiers: LCCN 2023012774 (print) | LCCN 2023012775 (ebook) | ISBN 9780812996586 (Hardback) | ISBN 9780812996593 (Ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Gothic fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3612.I553 B66 2024 (print) | LCC PS3612.I553 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20230316

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2023012774

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2023012775

Ebook ISBN 9780812996593

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Book design by Caroline Cunningham, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Will Staehle

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