NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”

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