BERKLEY ROMANCE
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Copyright © 2023 by Lana Ferguson
Excerpt from Overruled copyright © 2023 by Lana Ferguson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ferguson, Lana, author.
Title: The fake mate / Lana Ferguson.
Description: First edition. | New York : Berkley Romance, 2023.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023019640 (print) | LCCN 2023019641 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593549377 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780593549384 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shapeshifting—Fiction. | LCGFT: Paranormal fiction. | Romance fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3606.E72555 F35 2023 (print) | LCC PS3606.E72555 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20230508
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023019640
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023019641
First Edition: December 2023
Cover illustration by Monika Roe
Cover design by Rita Frangie Batour
Interior art: Wolf and Moon © happy.designer / Shutterstock
Book design by Alison Cnockaert, adapted for ebook by Molly Jeszke
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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