ONCE UPON A TIME Two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the comics, May wrote the stories, and Princess X fought monsters, ghosts, and other assorted creepazoids from her haunted house high on a hill. ONCE UPON A FEW YEARS LATER Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across a bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her. ONCE UPON A NOW May is sixteen and lonely when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window — a figure in a gold crown, pink dress, red Chucks, and a long katana sword . PRINCESS X? Suddenly, May sees the princess everywhere: stickers, patches, graffiti — an entire underground world built around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the comic, the more shocking connections she finds between Libby’s death and Princess X’s adventures. And that means only one person could have started this phenomenon — her best friend, Libby, who lives. Illustrated throughout with the Princess X webcomic, I Am Princess X is a mystery, wrapped in a friendship story, bound up with a cyberthriller . and all-around awesome. CHERIE PRIEST is the author of MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL, fourteen adult science fiction, fantasy, and a professional puppeteer and voice actor, horror novels, including Boneshaker, which won has performed for Sesame Street, LazyTown the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Novel, and Maplecroft, which Publishers Weekly Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand called “terrifying and powerful” in a starred Productions. She also records fiction for review. She lives near Chattanooga, Tennessee, authors such as Kage Baker, Neal Stephenson, with her husband and assorted animals, and and John Scalzi. A native of North Carolina, can be found online at www.cheriepriest.com Mary now lives in Chicago with her husband and @cmpriest. Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com. Running Time: 7 Hours • Unabridged Scholastic Inc. 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012-3999. © 2015 by Cherie Priest 햯 2015 Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. SCHOLASTIC, SCHOLASTIC AUDIOBOOKS, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. Produced & Directed by Bob Deyan. Princess X Illustrations © 2015 by Kali Ciesemier. Photography and design © 2015 by Phil Falco. www.scholastic.com 32313 Playaway preloaded audiobooks are the best way to listen, unplugged and uninterrupted. WWW.PLAYAWAY.COM © 2015 Playaway. Patented. All rights reserved. Designed in Ohio. Made in China. .