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It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls--and their foray into the spiritual world--lead to?From the Hardcover edition.
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- Author
- Libba Bray
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 403
- Publisher
- Random House, Listening Library (Audio), Random House Children's Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375890499
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