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

Copyright © 2021 by Danielle Steel

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

Delacorte Press and the House colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Steel, Danielle, author.

Title: Nine lives : a novel / Danielle Steel.

Description: New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] |

Identifiers: LCCN 2020012001 (print) | LCCN 2020012002 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984821430 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984821447 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3569.T33828 N56 2021 (print) | LCC PS3569.T33828 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020012001

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020012002

Ebook ISBN 9781984821447

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