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Copyright © 2013 by Susan Ottaway

Reading group guide copyright © 2014 by Susan Ottaway and Little, Brown and Company

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First ebook edition: September 2014

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Originally published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers 2013 under the title Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice

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