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Copyright © 2015 by Elizabeth Ruth Younts
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First Howard Books trade paperback edition October 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Younts, Elizabeth Byler.
Promise to keep : a novel / Elizabeth Byler Younts.—First Howard Books trade paperback edition.
pages ; cm
I. Title.
PS3625.O983P753 2015
813’.6—dc23
2015012010
ISBN 978-1-4767-3505-4
ISBN 978-1-4767-3506-1 (ebook)