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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Maniscalco, Kerri, author.
Title: Kingdom of the Feared / Kerri Maniscalco.
Description: First edition. | New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. | Series: Kingdom of the wicked ; 3 | Audience: Ages 16+. | Summary: Emilia is determined to clear Vittoria’s name when she is implicated in the murder of a high-ranking member of a rival demon court—even when her investigation forces Emilia to face the demons of her own past.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022019884 | ISBN 9780316341882 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316342087 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Demonology—Fiction. | Blessing and cursing—Fiction. | Supernatural—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction. | Twins—Fiction. | LCGFT: Paranormal fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M3648 Kih 2022 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022019884
ISBNs: 978-0-316-34188-2 (hardcover), 978-0-316-34208-7 (ebook), 978-0-316-52942-6 (international), 978-0-316-48563-0 (Walmart special edition), 978-0-316-47988-2 (B&N special edition), 978-0-316-50826-1 (Bookish Box)
E3-20220825-JV-NF-ORI
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Twenty Years Before
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine