KATE MEDINA
Scared to Death
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008132323
Ebook Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 9780008132262
Version: 2018-01-26
For my mother, Pamela Taylor, with love
ONCE upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear, and one was a Middle-Sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear.
Robert Southey, 1774–1843
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