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Copyright © 2021 by Kristin Beck

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Beck, Kristin, 1979- author.

Title: Courage, my love / Kristin Beck.

Description: First edition. | New York : Berkley, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020042951 (print) | LCCN 2020042952 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593101568 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780593101575 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939-1945—Underground movements—Italy—Fiction. | Women—Italy—Fiction. | Italy—History—German occupation, 1943-1945—Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3602.E2694 C68 2021 (print) | LCC PS3602.E2694 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020042951

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020042952

First Edition: April 2021

Cover images by by Richard Tuschman; boy © Galya Ivanova / Trevillion Images

Cover design by Rita Frangie

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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