Thorn Abbey (27 page)

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Authors: Nancy Ohlin

SIMON PULSE

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition May 2013

Copyright © 2013 by Nancy Ohlin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ohlin, Nancy.

Thorn Abbey / Nancy Ohlin.—1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.

p. cm.

Summary: When Tess transfers to New England’s premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max but Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, Becca, and Becca’s ghost is not quite ready to let him go.

ISBN 978-1-4424-6486-5 (alk. paper)

[1. Boarding schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Ghosts—Fiction. 4. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 5. New England—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.O41404Tho 2013   [Fic]—dc23  2012030483

ISBN 978-1-4424-6488-9 (eBook)

Contents

Prologue

Part One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Part Two

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About Nancy Ohlin

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