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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tooley, Adrienne, author. | Tooley, Adrienne. Third daughter.
Title: The second son / Adrienne Tooley.
Description: First edition. | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. | Series: The Betrayal Prophecies | Audience: Ages 14–18. | Summary: “Book 2 in a dark fantasy duology about leadership, betrayal, male rage, and politicizing female emotion—with an undercurrent of sapphic romance.”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023036902 | ISBN 9780316465908 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316466103 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Magic—Fiction. | Birth order—Fiction. | Fantasy. | LCGFT: Fantasy fiction. | Romance fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T6264 Se 2024 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023036902
ISBNs: 978-0-316-46590-8 (hardcover), 978-0-316-46610-3 (ebook)
E3-20240604-JV-NF-ORI
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Part One
1
2
3
4
5
