[Download] Red Queen

1070 Pages·2015·1.91 MB·English

by  Victoria Aveyard

DEDICATION
To Mom, Dad, and Morgan, who
wanted to know what happened next,
even when I didn’t.
CONTENTS
Dedication
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
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About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher

ONE
I hate First Friday. It makes the village
crowded, and now, in the heat of high
summer, that’s the last thing anyone
wants. From my place in the shade it
isn’t so bad, but the stink of bodies, all
sweating with the morning work, is
enough to make milk curdle. The air
shimmers with heat and humidity, and
even the puddles from yesterday’s storm
are hot, swirling with rainbow streaks of
oil and grease.
The market deflates, with everyone
closing up their stalls for the day. The
merchants are distracted, careless, and