The Gorgons Gaze # 2 (Companions Quartet)

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

Text copyright © 2006 by Julia Golding
Illustration copyright © 2006 by David Wyatt

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Golding, Julia.
The Gorgon’s gaze / by Julia Golding; [illustrations by David Wyatt]—
1st Marshall Cavendish ed.
p. cm.—(Companions quartet; bk. 2)
Summary: Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col’s mother, the gorgon’s supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development—even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
ISBN 978-0-7614-5377-2
[1. Gorgons (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 2. Animals, Mythical—Fiction. 3. Human-animal communication—Fiction. 4. Environmental protection—Fiction. 5. Secret societies—Fiction. 6. Supernatural—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.
PZ7.G56758Gor 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2006102919

Book design by Vera Soki

First Marshall Cavendish edition, 2007
Originally published in the UK by Oxford University Press, 2006

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Also by Julia Golding

The Companions Quartet, Book One:
Secret of the Sirens

For Joss

Gorgon:
(from classical mythology) One of three mythical female personages, with snakes for hair, whose look turned the beholder into stone.

The one of most note, and the only one mortal, Medusa, was slain by Perseus.

(from
The Oxford English Dictionary
, by permission of Oxford University Press)

Contents

CHAPTER ONE
Gold

CHAPTER TWO
Family

CHAPTER THREE
Rat

CHAPTER FOUR
Cassandra

CHAPTER FIVE
Snake

CHAPTER SIX
Gorgon

CHAPTER SEVEN
Argand

CHAPTER EIGHT
Inheritance

CHAPTER NINE
The Chest

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