Legacy of the Claw (26 page)

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK the editorial team at Paper Lantern Lit: Lauren Oliver, Lexa Hillyer, Beth Scorzato, and especially Rhoda Belleza. Their encouragement, advice, and hands-on help built the world of Animas and all its inhabitants in ways I could never do alone. Thanks are due to Stephen Barbara at Foundry Literary + Media, as well as Rotem Moscovich and Julie Moody at Disney • Hyperion for their dedication and support. Writers Aine Ni Cheallaigh, Nora Olsen, and Kelly Kingman have my gratitude for giving such wise counsel, in addition to Michele McNally and Jen Whitton, and of course my family for always lending their ears to my wonderings. And I'd also like to thank the Genealogy and Local History room at the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, NY, for being somehow both cozy and grand all at once—the perfect place to write a book.

C. R. Grey was born in a house on a pier in Maine – literally on the ocean. She then grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her BA in Theatre from SUNY New Paltz and her MFA in Fiction from Ohio State University. Grey lives in a sunny apartment in Poughkeepsie, New York, with one black cat, one white cat, and a Boston Terrier named Trudy. She can often be found weeding through ephemera in antique shops and walking over the bridges that span the Hudson River. LEGACY OF THE CLAW is her first novel.

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Hot Key Books

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ISBN: 978-1-4714-0130-5

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