Authors: Michelle Modesto

Revenge and the Wild (28 page)

Acknowledgments

First I want to thank my agent, John M. Cusick. I couldn’t have asked for a better champion for my book. I also want to thank my editor, Kristin Rens, and assistant editor, Kelsey Murphy, two very smart and insightful women. I’ve learned so much from working with both of you, and it’s been an absolute pleasure. I also want to thank Caroline Sun, Nellie Kurtzman, Renée Cafiero, Alison Donalty, and Jenna Stempel for my beautiful cover and Nim Ben-Reuven for the lovely hand-painted title. Next is Jerry Gannon and my dauntless mother, who’s always supportive even when I’m a nightmare to be around; my daughter, Haydn, who skipped fireworks with friends to talk characters; and my son, Xander, who only complained a little when I turned his closet into my writing space. You two delightful turds own my heart. Next I want to thank my best friend, Alena
Clark, my first reader and my loudest foul-mouthed cheerleader. My critique partner, Heather Roetto, and her husband, Nick Roetto, for moral and technical support. Our weekly gatherings keep me sane. Also, Sam Snoek-Brown and Bonnie Cox for our early discussions about craft. This long journey began with you. Last but not least, I want to thank Xanax. Because stress.

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About the Author

MICHELLE MODESTO
is a writer, hockey fanatic, art lover, and terrible cook—and her social skills aren’t that great either. This is her debut novel. She lives in Northern California in a double-wide mobile asylum with two mastiffs who don’t listen to her and two teenagers who also don’t listen to her. You can visit Michelle online at
www.michellemodesto.com
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Credits

Cover design by Jenna Stempel

Copyright

Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

REVENGE AND THE WILD
. Copyright © 2016 by Michelle Modesto. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Modesto, Michelle.

Revenge and the wild / Michelle Modesto. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Seventeen-year-old foul-mouthed Westie, the notorious adopted daughter of local inventor Nigel Butler, lives in the lawless western town of Rogue City, where she sets out to prove the wealthy investors in a magical technology that will save her city are the cannibals that killed her family and took her arm when she was a child.

ISBN 978-0-06-236615-3 (hardback)

EPub Edition © January 2016 ISBN 9780062366177

[1. Fantasy. 2. Revenge—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Cannibalism—Fiction. 5. People with disabilities—Fiction. 6. West (U.S.)—Fiction.] I. Title.