This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2007 by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Cover photograph copyright © 2007 by Photodisc Red/Getty Images
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
First electronic edition 2010
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Smith, Cynthia Leitich.
Tantalize / Cynthia Leitich Smith. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand reopening of her family’s vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best-friend-turned-love-interest, Kieren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
ISBN 978-0-7636-2791-1 (hardcover)
[1. Supernatural — Fiction. 2. Restaurants — Fiction. 3. Vampires — Fiction.
4. Werewolves — Fiction. 5. Orphans — Fiction. 6. Austin (Tex.) — Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.S64464Tan 2007
[Fic] — dc22 2005058124
ISBN 978-0-7636-4059-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5152-7 (electronic)
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