An Ivy Book

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 2001 by Maggie Osborne

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Manufactured in the United States of America

First edition: October 2001

eISBN: 978-0-345-44953-5

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