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The Abyss Surrounds Us © 2016 by Emily Skrutskie. All rights reserved. No
part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, in-
cluding Internet usage, without written permission from Flux, except in the
case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

First Edition
First Printing, 2016

Book design by Bob Gaul
Cover design by Kevin R. Brown
Cover illustration by Chris Nurse/Debut Art
Map by Llewellyn art department

Flux, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any re-
semblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events,
or locales is entirely coincidental. Cover models used for illustrative purposes
only and may not endorse or represent the book’s subject.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Skrutskie, Emily.
Title: The abyss surrounds us / Emily Skrutskie.
Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota: Flux, [2016] |
Summary: Cassandra Leung—a seventeen-year-old trainer of Reckoners,
sea beasts bred to defend ships—is kidnapped by the pirate queen Santa
Elena and ordered to train a Reckoner pup to defend Santa Elena’s ship.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015032027 (print) | LCCN 2015033064 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780738746913 | ISBN 9780738747613
Subjects: | CYAC: Science fiction. | Sea monsters—Fiction. |
Pirates—Fiction. | Youths’ writings.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S584 Ab 2016 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.S584 (ebook)
| DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015032027
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