Consent (22 page)

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N
ANCY
O
HLIN
:

Always, Forever

Beauty

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition November 2015

Text copyright © 2015 by Nancy Ohlin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ohlin, Nancy.

Consent / by Nancy Ohlin. —First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.

pages cm

Summary: “An intense bond between high school senior Bea and her music teacher turns into a passionate affair, but when their affair turns into a scandal, Bea wonders if their romance was ever real.”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-4424-6490-2 (hc)

[1. Teacher-student relationships—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. Musicians—Fiction.

4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.O41404Co 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2015014970

ISBN 978-1-4424-6492-6 (eBook)