This Totally Bites! (12 page)

The Dead End
by Mimi McCoy

This Totally Bites!
by Ruth Ames

Miss Fortune
by Brandi Dougherty

Ruth Ames was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives. She has written several bestselling young adult novels under another name. Growing up, she loved reading spooky books and imagining her apartment building was haunted. Though some of her family hails from Transylvania, she’s pretty sure they’re not vampires….

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Copyright © 2010 by Ruth Ames
Cover art by Katie Wood
Cover design by Yaffa Jaskoll

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First printing, May 2010

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