The Runaway

Hollie Overton

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By Hollie Overton

Baby Doll

The Walls

The Runaway

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Author photograph by Heather Overton

Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Overton, Hollie, author.

Title: The runaway / Hollie Overton.

Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : Redhook Books/Orbit, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019002121 (print) | LCCN 2019005005 (ebook) | ISBN
9780316482233 (Ebook) | ISBN 9780316482240 (Ebook Library Edition) | ISBN

9780316482257 (trade pbk.)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3615.V4745 (ebook) | LCC PS3615.V4745 R86 2019 (print) |
DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002121

ISBNs: 978-0-316-48225-7 (paperback), 978-0-316-48223-3 (ebook)

Printed in the United States of America

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COVER

DISCLAIMER

BY HOLLIE OVERTON

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MEET THE AUTHOR

A PREVIEW OF THE WALLS

Dedication TK

ASH

The delicately inked tattoo was a work of art, that’s what sixteen-year-old Ash thought as she gazed down at her forearm, watching as the final needle strokes were completed. This wasn’t Ash’s first tattoo, she had four others, but this one, with its lifelike image of a human eye, an elaborate sword piercing through it, was special.

The Runaway

Digital Galley Edition

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