Copyright © 2006 by Mary Sharratt
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Sharratt, Mary, date.
The vanishing point / Mary Sharratt.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-46233-9
ISBN-10: 0-618-46233-3
1. Maryland—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775— Fiction.
2. Women immigrants—Fiction. 3. Sisters—Death—Fiction.
4. Plantation owners—Fiction. 5. Plantation life—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.H3449V36 2006
813'.6—dc22 2005019777
eISBN 978-0-547-63035-9
v3.0912