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Also by Rebecca Hanover

The Similars

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Books. Change. Lives.

Copyright

Copyright © 2020 by Rebecca Hanover

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Published by Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Names: Hanover, Rebecca, author.

Title: The pretenders / Rebecca Hanover.

Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2020] | Sequel to: Similars | Audience: Ages 14-17 | Audience: Grades 10-12 | Summary: Still reeling from the events of last year, Emma isolates herself from her friends and Ollie, but when Gravelle’s plot is revealed, Emma realizes she must stop him before he destroys everyone she loves.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019031079 | (hardcover)

Subjects: CYAC: Cloning--Fiction. | Experiments--Fiction. | Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.H36425 Pr 2020 | DDC [Fic]--dc23

Contents

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Return

The Message

The Nine

Harlowe

The Hazing

Masquerade

The Originals

Plasma

Jake

The Duplicates

Jane Ward

Tensions

The Legacy Project

Stealth Virus

Eden

Past and Future

The Case for Clones

Confrontations

Holiday

Retaliation

The Pretender

The Parents

The Replacements

The Rally

Levi

Bianca

The Legacies

The Island

Rescue

Expendable

Reset

Control

Home

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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For Winnie and Bill: the best of the best.

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Date: August 29

Subject: Can’t

…not write you anymore. It’s been one hundred and thirty-nine days since I left the island, and you, and I told myself if I let it get to a hundred and fifty without doing something—anything… I wouldn’t.

So. Levi. I hope you’re safe.

I hope you receive this, and not Gravelle.

I hope when you eventually get off that island, I’m one of the people you want to see. Of course, you miss Maude and Ansel and Thea and Jago and Pippa so much, but—