The Demon's Covenant

MARGARET K. McELDERRY BOOKS

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Book design by Mike Rosamilia

The text for this book is set in Dante MT.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brennan, Sarah Rees.

The demon’s covenant / Sarah Rees Brennan.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(The demon’s lexicon trilogy)

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Mae feels that even though her world is out of control, she must find a way to protect the demon Nick from his brother Alan’s betrayal.

ISBN 978-1-4169-6381-3 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-0617-9 (eBook)

[1. Demonology—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Secrets—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B751645De 2010

[Fic]—dc22

2009040798