Of Curses and Kisses

by Sandhya Menon

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  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 February 2020

  Text copyright © 2020 by Sandhya Menon

  Jacket illustrations copyright © 2020 by Petra Braun

  Jacket hand-lettering copyright © 2020 by Saskia Bueno

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  Interior designed by Mike Rosamilia

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Menon, Sandhya, author.

  Title: Of curses and kisses / by Sandhya Menon.

  Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2020. | Summary: Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2019012497 | ISBN 9781534417540 (hardcover)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Vendetta—Fiction. | Blessing and cursing—Fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | Boarding schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Princesses—Fiction. | Students, Foreign—Fiction. | Colorado—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M473 Of 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019012497

  ISBN 9781534417564 (eBook)