© 1999, 2006 by Angela Elwell Hunt

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Page design by Mandi Cofer.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunt, Angela Elwell, 1957–
The truth teller / Angela Hunt
p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-59554-047-8 (trade pbk.)

1. Widows—Fiction. 2. Pregnant women—Fiction. 3. Genetic engineering—Fiction. 4. Truthfulness and falsehood—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.U46747T78 2005
813'.54—dc22

2005025527

Printed in the United States of America
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