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The Thousandth Floor
Katharine McGee
Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A thousand-storey tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible – if you want it enough.A hundred years in the future, New York's elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world. Everyone wants something… and everyone has something to lose.As the privileged inhabitants of the upper floors recklessly navigate the successes and pitfalls of the luxury life, forbidden desires are indulged and carefree lives teeter on the brink of catastrophe. Whilst lower-floor workers are tempted by a world – and unexpected romance – dangling just out of reach. And on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all – yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.So when a young woman falls from the top of the supertower, her death is the culmination of a scandal that has ensnared the top-floor elite and bottom-floor. But who plummeted from the roof? And what dark secrets led to her fall?Friends will be betrayed and enemies forged as promises are broken. When you’re this high up, there’s nowhere to go but down…
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First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers Inc., in 2016
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by HarperCollins Children’s Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ltd, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF.
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Copyright © Alloy Entertainment and Katharine McGee 2016
Cover photographs © Ilina Simeonova/Trevillion Images (woman figure); Westend61/Getty (window); Hongqi Zhang/Alamy (cityscape); Shutterstock.com (http://www.shutterstock.com) (woman head).
Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2016
Katharine McGee asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008179977
Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780008179960
Version: 2016-08-04
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Contents
Cover (#u093a6319-9071-5929-afec-12d741187fa2)
Title Page (#uf40ff833-6787-560f-aa75-eb1eb7dfce25)
Copyright
Dedication (#u889816a4-2bae-5360-93e8-8503d25c5cb0)
Prologue
Avery
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Rylin
Eris
Watt
Avery
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Eris
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Avery
Mariel
Acknowledgments
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About the Publisher
PROLOGUE (#u55fe127b-6976-595b-9134-9f74783f82dc)
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