This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

First Simon Pulse edition May 2003

Copyright © 1979 by Francine Pascal

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The text of this book was set in Goudy.

Library of Congress Control Number 2002112343

ISBN 978-1-4424-5234-3

ISBN-13: 978-1-4424-9952-2 (eBook)