© 2016 by Lis Wiehl

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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.

ISBN 978-0-7180-3890-8 (eBook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wiehl, Lis W., author. | Stuart, Sebastian, author.

Title: The candidate / Lis Wiehl with Sebastian Stuart.

Description: Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2016. | Series: A Newsmakers novel; 2

Identifiers: LCCN 2016018974 | ISBN 9780718037680 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Women journalists—Fiction. | Reporters and reporting—Fiction. | Presidential candidates—Fiction. | Conspiracy theories—Fiction. | Political fiction. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3623.I382 C36 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018974

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