The Elite (Selection)

are, you’re always bragging about your niece/granddaughter/cousin who writes books, and it means a lot to me to know you’re behind me all the way.
    To Elana, thanks for pretty much everything under the sun. This wouldn’t have happened without you.*awkward hug*
    To Erica, thanks for letting me call you a zillion times and for being as excited as I am about this story and for just generally being awesome.
    To Kathleen, thank you for making it so people in Brazil and China and Indonesia and wherever else get to read these books, too! Still blows my mind.
    To the gang at HarperTeen, you guys are unendingly rad, and I love you.
    To FTW … *throws ham in celebration*
    To Northstar, thanks for being home for the Cass family.
    To Athena, Rebeca, and the gang at the Christiansburg Panera for making me great hot chocolates and being awkward in the background while I did phone interviews. Thanks!
    To Jessica and Monica … basically because a promise is a promise, and you guys make me laugh.
    To you for sticking with America (and with me) while this all unfolds. Also, you rock my face off.
    To God for the mercy that is writing. I’d be lost otherwise.
    To naps … which is where I’m going now. And to cake, just because.

OTHER BOOKS BY KIERA CASS
    The Selection
    The Prince (available as an ebook only)

Credits
    COVER ART © 2013 BY GUSTAVO MARX/MERGE LEFT REPS, INC.
COVER DESIGN BY ERIN FITZSIMMONS

Copyright
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    THE ELITE
    Copyright © 2013 by Kiera Cass
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Cass, Kiera.
    The Elite / Kiera Cass. — 1st ed.
    p. cm.
    Summary: “Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection—but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies”—Provided by publisher.
    ISBN 978-0-06-205996-3 (trade)
    ISBN 978-0-06-226285-1 (int’l ed.)
    [1. Marriage—Fiction. 2. Contests—Fiction. 3. Social classes—Fiction. 4. Princes—Fiction. 5. Love—Fiction.
    6. Revolutionaries—Fiction.] I. Title.
    PZ7.C2685133Eli 2013
    [Fic]—dc23
    2012038124
    CIP
    AC
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    FIRST EDITION
    EPub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780062059987

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