The Secret of the Dread Forest: The Faire Folk Trilogy © 200 9 by Berta Platas and Michelle Roper. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Flux, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Cover design by Kevin R. Brown

Cover illustration by Derek Lea

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Summers, Gillian.

The secret of the Dread Forest: the faire folk trilogy / Gillian

Summers.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(The faire folk trilogy ; bk. 3)

Summary: After reluctantly joining her father in the Dread Forest, home to elves and her fearsome elf grandmother, teenaged Keelie meets a mysterious boy and learns that both humans and dark magical forces are encroaching on the elves’ enchanted realm.

ISBN : 978-0-7387-1411-0

eISBN : 9780738714110

[1. Elves—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Trees—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S953987Se 2009

[Fic]—dc22

2009001687

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Cover model used for illustrative purposes only and may not endorse or represent the book’s subject.

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