This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Excerpt from A Sinful Calling copyright © 2016 by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Reading group guide copyright © 2015 by Kimberla Lawson Roby and Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Cover design by Elizabeth Connor. Cover image © George Kerrigan.
Cover copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at permissions@hbgusa.com. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.
Grand Central Publishing
Hachette Book Group
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
grandcentralpublishing.com
twitter.com/grandcentralpub
Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Grand Central Publishing in June 2015
First trade paperback edition: April 2016
Grand Central Publishing is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The Grand Central Publishing name and logo is a trademark of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.
The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to www.hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roby, Kimberla Lawson.
The ultimate betrayal / Kimberla Lawson Roby. — First edition.
pages ; cm. — (A Reverend Curtis Black novel)
ISBN 978-1-4555-5956-5 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4789-2989-5 (audio download) — ISBN 978-1-4555-5957-2 (ebook) 1. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. 2. African American women—Fiction. 3. Mate selection—Fiction. 4. Marriage—Fiction. 5. Urban fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.O3189U47 2015
813′.54--dc23
2014049907
ISBNs: 978-1-4555-5955-8 (paperback), 978-1-4555-5957-2 (ebook)
E3