Perfect (30 page)
Authors: Sara Shepard
The camera remained fixed on the blindfolded girl. She wasn’t moving. Then the picture went momentarily dark again. When an image snapped back on the screen, the camera was tilted over, fallen on the ground. Emma could still see a sideways shot of the figure in the chair. Someone walked up to the girl and pulled the blindfold off her head. After a long pause, the girl coughed. Tears dotted her eyes. The corners of her mouth pulled down. She blinked slowly. For a split second before the screen went dark, she stared half-consciously into the lens.
Emma’s jaw dropped to her worn Converse sneakers.
Clarice gasped loudly.
“Ha,” Travis said triumphantly. “I
told
you.”
Emma stared at the girl’s huge, blue eyes, slightly upturned nose, and round face. She looked
exactly
like her.
That was because the girl in the video was me.
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About the Author
SARA SHEPARD
graduated from New York University and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband. The Pretty Little Liars series was inspired by her upbringing in Philadelphia’s Main Line.
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PRETTY LITTLE LIARS #3: PERFECT
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EPub © Edition JULY 2008 ISBN: 9780061975585
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Spencer’s Hard Work Pays Off
Chapter 2: Just Another Sexually Charged Day in AP English
Chapter 3: There’s No Such Thing as bad Press
Chapter 4: No Wonder Emily’s Mom is So Strict
Chapter 5: Aria’s All for Literary Reenactments
Chapter 6: Sibling Rivalry’s a Hard Habit to Break
Chapter 7: Nothing Like an Old-Fashioned Interrogation
Chapter 8: It’s Always Good to Read the Book Before Stealing from it
Chapter 9: Everyone, a Big Round of Applause for Spencer Hastings!
Chapter 10: Someone Didn’t Listen
Chapter 11: Even High-Tech Security Doesn’t Protect You from Everything
Chapter 13: Hello, My Name is Emily. And I’m Gay
Chapter 14: Spencer’s Big Close-Up
Chapter 15: Never, Ever Trust Something as Obsolete as a Fax Machine
Chapter 16: Someone’s Been Kissing in the Kiln…
Chapter 17: Because all Cheesy Relationship Moments Happen in Cemeteries
Chapter 18: A Good Smack Upside the Head Never Hurt Anyone
Chapter 19: It’s Better Than a Sign Saying, “Kick Me”
Chapter 21: What Does H-O-L-Y C-R-A-P Spell?
Chapter 22: There’s No Place Like Rosewood—From 3,000 Feet Up
Chapter 23: The Rosebushes Have Eyes
Chapter 24: And in Another Garden Across Town…
Chapter 25: Special Delivery for Hanna Marin
Chapter 26: Spencer Gets in Hot Water…Literally and Figuratively
Chapter 27: Old Habits Die Hard
Chapter 28: Some of Her Letters Also Spell Jail
Chapter 29: There’s a Full Moon at the Hollis Planetarium
Chapter 30: Change is Good…Except When it’s Not
Chapter 31: They Fought the Law and the Law Won
Chapter 32: Not-So-Secret Lovers
Chapter 33: Someone Slips Up. Big Time
Chapter 34: It’s Right There in Front of You
Chapter 35: Words Whispered from the Past
Chapter 36: It Will all Be Over
