No Angel (22 page)

Acknowledgments

F
irst, my profound and eternal gratitude to my agent, Nephele Tempest, my editors Erica Sussman and Tyler Infinger, and all the fantastic team at HarperTeen.

There are some other friends without whom this book wouldn’t exist. First, my gratitude to Eljas Oksanen, for long, long ago telling me about a boy he’d seen on the Brussels subway, thus planting the idea of Raffi in my head (no, really). Second, to my foxy friends Yoon Ha Lee and Nancy Sauer, for a late-night online conversation wherein the bones of this book first took shape. Nancy, I hope you approve of the Headmistress . . . and I apologize, Yoon, for the deliberate math mistake in Chapter 29 (though I’ll be
very
impressed if anyone else spots it).

Book bloggers are simultaneously the most wonderful and terrifying people a newbie author like myself can encounter, and I am deeply in the debt of all the talented, passionate people who’ve taken the time to review my books. My particular thanks must go to Giselle Cormier of Xpresso Reads, who not only put together a fantastic book blog tour for
Fang Girl
, but also now daily entertains me on Twitter. And I will forever be grateful for the time Giselle put the wrong book in the mail, resulting in Jenni Arndt of Alluring Reads accidentally receiving
Fang Girl
. . . thereby introducing me to another marvelous and delightful blogger. Huge thanks to you both for all your support! (And I hope you got to read
Stealing Parker eventually
, Jenni.)

Final thanks go, as always, to my husband Tim, who is
my
angel . . . though not (probably to his relief) with hundreds of eyes.

About the Author

Helen Keeble
is not, and never has been, an angel. She has, however, been a teenager. She grew up partly in America and partly in England, which has left her with an unidentifiable accent and a fondness for peanut butter crackers washed down with a nice cup of tea. She now lives in West Sussex, England, with her husband, daughter, two cats, and a variable number of fish. If the above hasn’t told you everything you ever need to know about Helen, you can find out more about her and her work at www.helenkeeble.com.

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Credits

Cover photo © 2013 by Carrie Schechter

Cover design by Alison Klapthor

Copyright

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No Angel

Copyright © 2013 by Helen Keeble

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Keeble, Helen.

    No angel / Helen Keeble. — First edition.

        pages    cm

    Summary: “Rafael Angelos thought being the only guy at an all-girls school would be a dream come true—but he didn’t realize that developing angelic powers and battling demons would be part of the package”— Provided by publisher.

    ISBN 978-0-06-208227-5 (pbk. bdg.)

    EPUB Edition JULY 2013 ISBN 9780062082282

    [1. Angels—Fiction. 2. Demonology—Fiction. 3. Boarding schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.]    I. Title.

PZ7.K22549No 2013

2012040092

[Fic]—dc23

CIP

AC

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FIRST EDITION