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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.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Carriger, Gail, author.

Title: Competence / Gail Carriger.

Description: First edition. | New York : Orbit, 2018. | Series: The Custard protocol ; book 3

Identifiers: LCCN 2017046503| ISBN 9780316433884 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316433877 (ebook (open))

Subjects: LCSH: Werewolves—Fiction. | Vampires—Fiction. | Paranormal fiction. | Steampunk fiction. | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3603.A77448 C66 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046503

ISBNs: 978-0-316-43388-4 (hardcover), 978-0-316-43387-7 (ebook)

E3-20180321-JV-NF

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