Abandon - Meg Cabot [103]
If you are interested in reading more about the Greek Underworld, I recommend Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Is John Hayden’s Underworld and the Underworld of the Greek gods the same place? That’s a question to be answered in further books.
I am very excited about this series, and I hope you are, too. I can’t wait to share the next installment, Underworld, with you.
MEG CABOT
THE ABANDON TRILOGY
The Myth of Persephone, Darkly Reimagined
— BOOK TWO: UNDERWORLD —
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.
Not this time.
But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey.
Her captor, John Hayden, claims it’s for her own safety. Because not all the departed are dear. Some are so unhappy with where they ended up after leaving the Underworld, they’ve come back as Furies, intent on vengeance…on the one who sent them there and on the one whom he loves.
But while Pierce might be safe from the Furies in the Underworld, far worse dangers could be lurking for her there…and they might have more to do with its ruler than with his enemies.
And unless Pierce is careful, this time there’ll be no escape.
About the Author
MEG CABOT’S many series and books for adults, teens, and tweens have included multiple #1 New York Times bestsellers and have sold more then fifteen million copies worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series has been published in more than thirty-eight countries and was made into two hit films by Disney. Meg also wrote the New York Times bestselling Mediator, Airhead, and Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls series; Insatiable; as well as the award-winning novels All-American Girl and Avalon High. Meg lives in Key West with her husband and two cats. Visit Meg online at www.megcabot.com.
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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