Nancy Paulsen Books
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First published in the United States of America by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024
Copyright © 2024 by Mary Katherine Pagano
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Pagano, MK, author.
Title: Girls who burn / MK Pagano.
Description: New York: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024. | Summary: “Eighteen-year-old Addie Blackwood is forced to team up with her childhood rival to unmask her sister’s killer”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023056468 (print) | LCCN 2023056469 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593620021 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593620038 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Love-hate relationships—Fiction. | Murder—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | LCGFT: Romance fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.P326 Gi 2024 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.P326 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023056468
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023056469
Ebook ISBN 9780593620038
Edited by Caitlin Tutterow
Design by Cindy De la Cruz, adapted for ebook by Michelle Quintero
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Contents
Dedication
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
