The Fine Art of Insincerity

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

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First Howard Books trade paperback edition May 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunt, Angela Elwell, 1957–

The fine art of insincerity / Angela Hunt.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4391-8203-1

1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Marriage—Fiction. 3. Inheritance and succession— Fiction. 4. Grandmothers—Death—Fiction. 5. Saint Simons Island (Ga.)— Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.U46747F56 2011

813’.54—dc22

2010028940

ISBN 978-1-4391-8203-1
ISBN 978-1-4391-8206-2 (ebook)

The Scripture marked The Message is taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. The passage from 1 Corinthians in chapter 13 is adapted from the King James Version of the Bible, public domain.