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THE
WICKED
AWAKENING
OF ANNE
MERCHANT
THE
WICKED
AWAKENING
OF ANNE
MERCHANT
By Joanna Wiebe
BenBella Books, Inc.
Dallas, Texas
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Joanna Wiebe
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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First e-book edition: January 2015
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiebe, Joanna.
The wicked awakening of Anne Merchant / by Joanna Wiebe.
pages cm
Sequel to: The unseemly education of Anne Merchant.
Summary: “Thrust back into the cryptic world of Cania Christy, Anne Merchant finds herself tangled in a mystic plot she can’t escape”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-940363-29-5 (paperback)—ISBN 978-1-940363-58-5 (electronic) [1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Good and evil—Fiction. 3. Boarding schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Wealth—Fiction. 6. Islands—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W63513Wic 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014027912
Editing by Heather Butterfield
Copyediting by Brittany Dowdle
Proofreading by Greg Teague and Jenny Bridges
Cover design by Sarah Dombrowsky
Cover illustration by Chad Michael Ward and Ralph Voltz
Text design and composition by Silver Feather Design
Printed by Lake Book Manufacturing
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CONTENTS
three | The Sacrificial Lamb |
five | The Vivification of Damon Smith |
sixteen | In the Shadows of Angels |
seventeen | The Road to Hell |
twenty-one | ‘T Ain’t No Sin |
twenty-two | Things Fall Apart |
twenty-three | Out of Body Experiences |