© 2017 by Lis Wiehl and Sebastian Stuart

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Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wiehl, Lis W., author. | Stuart, Sebastian, author.

Title: The separatists / Lis Wiehl with Sebastian Stuart.

Description: Nashville : Thomas Nelson, [2017] | Series: Newsmakers ; 3

Identifiers: LCCN 2017004731 | ISBN 9780718037697 (hardback)

EPub Edition May 2017 ISBN 9780718038915

Subjects: LCSH: Women journalists--Fiction. | Reporters and

reporting--Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3623.I382 S47 2017 | DDC 813/.6--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004731

Printed in the United States of America

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