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

THE ROSE CONSPIRACY

Copyright © 2009 by Craig Parshall

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Parshall, Craig, 1950-

The rose conspiracy / Craig Parshall.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-7369-1514-4 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-6416-6 (eBook)

1. Murder—Fiction. 2. Artists—Fiction. 3. Freemasonry—Fiction. 4. Washington (DC)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3616.A77R67 2009

813'.6—dc22

2008032122

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