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Copyright © 2016 by Kate Moretti
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moretti, Kate, author.
Title: The vanishing year : a novel / Kate Moretti.
Description: New York : Atria Books, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015050466
Subjects: LCSH: Upper class women—Fiction. | Secrecy—Fiction. | Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. | California—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Romance / Suspense. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Romantic suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3613.O7185 V36 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050466
ISBN 978-1-5011-1843-2
ISBN 978-1-5011-1844-9 (ebook)