Authors: Jackie Kessler
Black and White (47 page)
JACKIE KESSLER
used to run around in Wonder Woman Underoos and watch
Challenge of the Super Friends.
Now she watches superhero cartoons with her kids. Jackie’s superpower is stamina: She survived pitching one thousand beloved comic books after a battle with a flooded basement. (Comic books, contrary to popular belief, are not waterproof.) When not writing about superheroes and the villains who beat the heroes into a bloody mess, she likes to write about demons. For more about Jackie, visit her website:
www.jackiekessler.com
.
CAITLIN KITTREDGE
is an avid comic book reader and superhero fan, ever since she picked up a copy of
The Dark Knight Returns
at age fifteen. She once painted herself blue and went to a Halloween party as the X-Men’s Mystique. She’s worked as a game designer, phone psychic, and hot-dog-on-a-stick girl, and currently writes full-time near Seattle, Washington, surrounded by books, cats, and action figures. Her other novels include the popular Nocturne City and Black London series and the Iron Codex trilogy for young adults. Visit her online at
www.caitlinkittredge.com
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And don’t miss the further adventures
of Iridium and Jet …
New Chicago is bursting at the seams, and the violence
is starting to spread. But it’s
not just any violence—it’s extrahuman violence: superheroes gone mad, no
longer brainwashed slaves to Corp-Co.
And when superheroes are the cause of mayhem,
it’s up to the forces of chaos to rein them back in.
For when the answers that were once so
black and white get blurred, you get …
SHADES OF GRAY
by
Jackie Kessler
and
Caitlin Kittredge
A Spectra Trade Paperback
July 2010
Black and White
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events,
or locales is entirely coincidental.
A Spectra Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2009 by Jacqueline H. Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Spectra, an imprint of The Random House
Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
S
PECTRA
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eISBN: 978-0-553-90666-0
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