DEV1AT3 (DEVIATE)

DEV1AT3 (DEVIATE)
Jay Kristoff

Book two of the thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author of The Nevernight Chronicle and the Illuminae Files ‘EVERY KIND OF BADASS’ Laini Taylor After a battle that broke hearts, minds, and bodies, two friends find themselves on opposite sides of the same quest. Shattered by the discovery that she is not at all who or what she believed, Eve joins forces with her new ‘siblings’. Meanwhile, Lemon finds a sense of belonging –perhaps even love – in an enclave of other genetic deviates. But with friends and enemies, heroes and villains, wearing interchangeable faces, nothing is as it seems. Soon, Eve and Lemon are racing against each other to find a missing girl whose DNA may hold the key to saving or destroying their broken world.

DEV1AT3

Jay Kristoff

Copyright (#u12adf04f-7ed3-5fc9-83f6-28962258a8b6)

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Map art copyright © 2018 by Virginia Allyn

‘Deathwish’ written by Thomas Searle, Samuel Carter, Daniel Searle, Alex Dean © 2016, Music of The Mothership (BMI) Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.

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Source ISBN: 9780008301415

Ebook Edition © August 2019 ISBN: 9780008301392

Version: 2019-09-13

Epigraph (#u12adf04f-7ed3-5fc9-83f6-28962258a8b6)

Turn a blind eye,

Until the day we die.

Maybe we’ve passed the point of no return.

Maybe we just want to watch the world burn.

—Thomas Searle

Contents

Cover (#uac525676-e404-54ba-bdfd-ffecb49fbcf2)

Title Page (#u62f2f7d0-5ca3-5f5e-8528-96eed1d6a557)

Copyright

Epigraph

The Who, What and Why

Map

2.0: Reunion

Part 1: Mitosis and Meiosis

2.1: Splitsville

2.2: Jacked

2.3: Change

2.4: Proposition

2.5: Helotry

2.6: Disciples

2.7: Solomon

2.8: Paladin

2.9: Easy

2.10: Rumble

2.11: Family

Part 2: By Means of Natural Selection