Ashley Bell: A Novel

Ashley Bell
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Dean Koontz

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Title page photograph by Vladimir Fofanov

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Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Ashley Bell : a novel / Dean Koontz.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-345-54596-1 (hardcover : acid-free paper) — ISBN 978-0-345-54597-8 (eBook)

1. Young women—California—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3561.O55A94 2016

813'.54—dc23

2015023225

eBook ISBN 9780345545978

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Book design by Virginia Norey, adapted for eBook

Cover design: Scott Biel

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