Abandon

by Meg Cabot

  BOOKS BY MEG CABOT

  Abandon

  Airhead

  Being Nikki

  Runaway

  Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls series

  The Princess Diaries series

  The Mediator series

  Vanished series

  Avalon High series

  All-American Girl

  Ready or Not

  Teen Idol

  How to Be Popular

  Pants on Fire

  Jinx

  Nicola and the Viscount

  Victoria and the Rogue

  Insatiable

  Heather Wells series

  Queen of Babble series

  The Boy Book series

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2011 by Meg Cabot, LLC

  Cover Photograph © 2011 by Michael Frost

  Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Cabot, Meg.

  Abandon / by Meg Cabot. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce’s life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.

  ISBN 978-0-545-28410-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-545-04064-8 (alk. paper)

  [1. Supernatural — Fiction. 2. High schools — Fiction. 3. Schools — Fiction. 4. Family life — Florida — Fiction. 5. Persephone (Greek deity) — Fiction. 6. Hades (Greek deity) — Fiction. 7. Mythology, Greek — Fiction. 8. Near-death experiences — Fiction. 9. Florida — Fiction.]

  I. Title.

  PZ7.C11165Ab 2011

  [Fic] — dc22

  2010047447

  First edition, May 2011

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  eISBN: 978-0-545-38769-9