About the Author

Cassandra Rose Clarke is a speculative fiction writer living amongst the beige stucco and overgrown pecan trees of Houston, Texas. She graduated in 2006 from The University of St Thomas with a bachelor's degree in English, and in 2008 she completed her master's degree in creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Both of these degrees have served her surprisingly well.

  During the summer of 2010, she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle. She was also a recipient of the 2010 Susan C Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund.

  Unlike many authors, Cassandra does not have a resume of peculiar careers. She worked at a Barnes and Noble once – that's about as exciting as it gets. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, painting, crocheting, cooking, and quilting, because she is secretly an old lady. She will see literally any movie as long as it's in a theater. She watches television. She doesn't play many video games, though.

 

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STRANGE CHEMISTRY

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Strange Chemistry #4

A Strange Chemistry paperback original 2012

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Copyright © Cassandra Rose Clarke 2012

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-908844-00-2

eBook ISBN: 978-1-908844-02-6

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This novel is entirely a work of fction. 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.