© 2015 by Lisa Samson

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Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

ISBN 978-0-52912-378-7 (eBook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Samson, Lisa, 1964-

A thing of beauty / Lisa Samson.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-1-59554-547-3 (softcover)

1. Actors--Fiction. 2. Blacksmiths--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.A46673T48 2015

813’.54--dc23

2014029934

14 15 16 17 18 19 RRD 6 5 4 3 2 1