In case you haven’t heard me shouting about it, my agent, Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, and my editor, Alexandra Cooper, are the most incredible agent and editor ever, and I will fight you if you disagree. Also, Adriann and Alexandra, I don’t know how to thank you properly. I’m going to try, but maybe I could just buy you both ponies? I think you would look very fancy on them and maybe they would be good for commuting. You are both brilliant. I would be lost without your savvy advice and uncanny ability to make my terrible words better without making me cry because my words are terrible.
There were many, many people who helped this final book take shape: Jon Howard, Robin Roy, Gweneth Morton, thank you for your eagle eyes, solid sense of story, and command of the English language. Audrey Diestelkamp, Jane Lee, Tyler Breitfeller, and Jace Molan, thank you for being incredible marketing professionals and social media moguls and also being all-around great people. Alyssa Miele (congratulations, editor!) what are we going to do without you? Olivia Russo, you are a dream publicist, and I am so glad I’ve been able to lean on you and call you late at night when I have travel issues (though I do apologize for that call!). Sari Murray: thank you for putting up with me while Olivia is away. ☺ Bess Braswell: you rock. It’s just like, a fact. Aurora Parlagreco, Erin Fitzsimmons, Cat SanJuan, John Dismukes, and Virginia Allyn: you have made this series so amazingly beautiful! Amy Landon, your voice has made the audiobooks absolutely shine. Thank you. A huge thank you to Rosemary Brosnan and the entire team at HarperTeen for unbelievable support.
Thank you to everyone at Foundry Literary + Media, and to Kirsten Wolf and Allison Devereux at Mackenzie Wolf.
Thank you for Crystal Patriarche and Keely Platte at BookSparks PR! You guys are awesome.
Thank you to April Genevieve Tucholke for encouraging texts and always being up for an escape room.
Thank you to Susan Murray, for remembering my characters when you rarely remember any characters except for the ones from Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.
Thank you to my parents, for raising me and making sure I didn’t die and stuff. Also for the many delicious casseroles.
And as usual, thank you to Dylan Zoerb, for luck.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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KENDARE BLAKE is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series. She holds an MA in creative writing from Middlesex University in northern London. She is also the author of Anna Dressed in Blood, a Cybils Awards finalist; Girl of Nightmares; Antigoddess; Mortal Gods; and Ungodly. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages, have been featured on multiple best-of-year lists, and have received many regional and librarian awards. Kendare lives and writes in Gig Harbor, Washington. Visit her online at www.kendareblake.com.
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BOOKS BY KENDARE BLAKE
Three Dark Crowns
One Dark Throne
Two Dark Reigns
Five Dark Fates
The Young Queens
The Oracle Queen
Queens of Fennbirn
Anna Dressed in Blood
Girl of Nightmares
Mortal Gods
Ungodly
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FIVE DARK FATES. Copyright © 2019 by Kendare Blake. Map of Fennbirn by Virginia Allyn. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2019941397
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-268617-6 (trade bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-06-295506-7 (special edition)
ISBN 978-0-06-293756-8 (int.)
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