Pretty Little Liars 10 (Ruthless)

Ruthless
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS NOVEL

SARA SHEPARD

Dedication
To Farrin, Kari, Christina, Marisa, and the rest of the fabulous Harper crew

Epigraph
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Contents
Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE Chapter 1 - EVERY KILLER DESERVES A NIGHT OUT Chapter 2 - SPENCER HAS A DOPPELGANGER Chapter 3 -PRETTY LITTLE LONER Chapter 4 HANNA MARIN, CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST Chapter 5 - THE LITTLE MERMAID Chapter 6 - A FALLEN STAR Chapter 7 - THANK GOODNESS FOR CELL PHONE ADDRESS BOOKS Chapter 8 - THE STARS ALIGN Chapter 9 - EMILY’S GOT A TYPE

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Chapter 10 - OH, AMOUR . . . Chapter 11 - SUMMER SCHOOL REUNION Chapter 12 - SOMEONE IS WATCHING Chapter 13 - KISSING WITHOUT A LICENSE Chapter 14 -SPENCER FREES HER MIND Chapter 15 - WHAT YOU SEE ISN’T WHAT YOU GET Chapter 16 - ARIA’S FAVORITE BOOK EVER Chapter 17 - KISSING IN THE CHURCHYARD Chapter 18 - ALL GREAT ACTRESSES HALLUCINATE! Chapter 19 - THE BOOK THIEF Chapter 20 - ALL LOVING FATHERS STICK THEIR DAUGHTERS IN TALL TOWERS Chapter 21 - SAME BAG, SCARIER CONTENTS

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Chapter 22 - NOTHING LIKE A THREAT TO HELP WITH A DECISIONChapter 23 - EMILY’S SUCH A PUSHOVER Chapter 24 - LIFE IMITATES ART Chapter 25 - “BUT SOFT! WHAT LIGHT THROUGH YONDER WINDOW BREAKS?” Chapter 26 - DIDN’T ARIA’S MOM TELL HER NO BOYS IN HER ROOM? Chapter 27 - BREAK A LEG, LADY MACBETH Chapter 28 - THE TRUTH WILL OUT Chapter 29 - SHE WARNED YOU, ARIA . . . Chapter 30 - KILL HER BEFORE SHE KILLS YOU Chapter 31 - EMILY FOLLOWS HER HEART Chapter 32 - NOTYOUR USUAL FLYER ON THE DASHBOARD Chapter 33 - A FALLEN IDOL

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Chapter 34 - FAMILY STICKS TOGETHER Chapter 35 - WHO CARES ABOUT PERFECT, ANYWAY? Chapter 36 - THE REAL SPENCER F. Chapter 37 - FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE ENEMY Chapter 38 - SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES WHAT HAPPENS NEXT . . . Acknowledgments About the Author Credits Back-Ad Copyright About the Publisher

YOU GET WHAT YOUDESERVE
Have you ever gotten away with something really, really bad? Like when you hooked up with that cute guy you work with at the bagel shop . . . and never told your boyfriend. Or when you stole that patterned scarf from your favorite boutique . . . and the security alarms didn’t go off. Or when you created an anonymous Twitter profile and posted a vicious rumor about your BFF . . . andsaid nothing when she blamed it on the bitchy girl who sat in front of her in Algebra III. At first, not getting caught might have felt amazing. But as time went by, maybe you felt a slow, sick roll in the pit of your stomach. Had you really done that? What if anyone ever found out? Sometimes the anticipation is worse than the punishment itself, and the guilt can eat you alive. You’ve probably heardthe phrase She got away with murder a thousand times and thought nothing of it, but four pretty girls in Rosewood actually did get away with murder. And that’s not even all they’ve done. Their dangerous secrets are slowly eating them from the inside out. And now, someone knows everything. Karma’s a bitch. Especially in Rosewood, where secrets never stay buried for long. Even though it was almost10:30 P.M. on July 31 in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, a wealthy, bucolic suburb twenty miles outside Philadelphia, the air was still muggy, oppressively hot, and full of mosquitoes. The flawlessly manicured lawns had turned a dry, dull brown, the flowers in the beds had withered, and many of the leaves on the trees had shriveled up and fallen to the ground. Residents swam languidly in theirlime-rocked pools, gobbled up homemade peach ice cream from the open-till-midnight local organic farmstand, or retreated indoors to lie in front of their air conditioners and pretend it was February. It was one of the few times all year the town didn’t look like a picture-perfect postcard.

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Aria Montgomery sat on her back porch, slowly dragging an ice cube across the back of her neck and...