The Demon's Covenant

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[1. Demonology—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Secrets—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B751645De 2010

[Fic]—dc22

2009040798

FOR CHIARA—my best friend, and the best thing I ever found in a library

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Someone very wise once told me the second book is harder than the first: If the last one took a village, this took a city. But luckily I had a wonderful city to hand, and to thank!

Thanks to Kristin Nelson, agent extraordinaire, and the whole fabulous team at the NLA.

Thanks to Karen Wojtyla, otherwise known as the mistress of my soul, who, ably supported by Emily Fabre, stopped me babbling and using Terrible Romantic Clichés. Thanks to my UK editor, Venetia Gosling, who quite agreed with her, and my copy editor, Valerie Shea, who agreed with both of them!

Thanks to Simon & Schuster in their entirety, both in the US and in the UK, and to all my lovely foreign publishers as well. Your amazing support of the first book means that I trust you all absolutely with this one!

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