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Bad Girls Don't Die
Part 01 – Novel Information
Title: Bad Girls Don’t Die
Author: Katie Alender
Copyright: © Copyright 2009 New York, New York
Genre: Horror

Part 01 – Novel Information
Title: Bad Girls Don’t Die
Author: Katie Alender
Copyright: © Copyright 2009 New York, New York
Genre: Horror

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Part 02 – Author Information Katie Alender was born and in South Florida in the late 1970s. She is the third of four children, three girls and one boy, and is the child Katie is a graduate of the Florida State University Film School and is currently living in Los Angeles where she works as a producer and writer. She is the third of four children (three girls and a boy) and the child of three very loving and encouraging parents. The author enjoys writing, reading, sewing (especially quilts), practicing yoga, photography, visiting friends’ blogs, eating delicious high-calorie foods, and hanging out with her husband, Chris, and her spoiled rotten Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Winston. When she’s not novels or producing television shows, she is usually found in her sewing room, making things for her friends, her dog, or even her friends’ dogs! Katie Alender has written three books, ‘Bad Girls Don’t Die’, ‘From Bad to Cursed’, and her most recent novel, ‘As Dead as it Gets’. The title ‘Bad Girls Don’t Die’ was influenced by the song ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, which was popular in the 1960s. Katie wrote down ‘Bad Girls Don’t Die’ as a joke, but ironic enough, everybody at the publisher loved it.
Part 03 – Alexis Alexis Warren has pink hair and green eyes. The only thing Alexis really cares about is photography. The young high school student’s life changes when Kasey, Alexis’s little sister, is acting stranger than ever. Her blue eyes go green when she’s mad, she uses old-fashioned language, and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves, water boils on the

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