The
DEMON’S COVENANT
Also by Sarah Rees Brennan
THE DEMON’S LEXICON TRILOGY
BOOK TWO
The
Demon’s Covenant
SARAH REES BRENNAN
MARGARET K. McELDERRY BOOKS
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The text for this book is set in Dante MT.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brennan, Sarah Rees.
The demon’s covenant / Sarah Rees Brennan.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(The demon’s lexicon trilogy)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Mae feels that even though her world is out of control, she must find a way to protect the demon Nick from his brother Alan’s betrayal.
ISBN 978-1-4169-6381-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-0617-9 (eBook)
[1. Demonology—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Secrets—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B751645De 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009040798
FOR CHIARA—my best friend, and the best thing I ever found in a library
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Someone very wise once told me the second book is harder than the first: If the last one took a village, this took a city. But luckily I had a wonderful city to hand, and to thank!
Thanks to Kristin Nelson, agent extraordinaire, and the whole fabulous team at the NLA.
Thanks to Karen Wojtyla, otherwise known as the mistress of my soul, who, ably supported by Emily Fabre, stopped me babbling and using Terrible Romantic Cliches. Thanks to my UK editor, Venetia Gosling, who quite agreed with her, and my copy editor, Valerie Shea, who agreed with both of them!
