This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Marti Leimbach

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Cover design by Emily Mahon

Cover photograph by Brendan Austin

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Leimbach, Marti, 1963– author.

Title: Age of consent : a novel / Marti Leimbach.

Description: First edition. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015047802 (print) | LCCN 2016000946 (ebook) ISBN 9780385540872 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385540889 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Mothers and daughters—Fiction. Life change events—Fiction.

Teenage girls—Sexual behavior—Fiction. Domestic fiction. BISAC:

FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Contemporary Women. FICTION / Legal.

GSAFD: Legal stories.

Classification: LCC PS3562.E4614 A74 2016 (print) LCC PS3562.E4614 (ebook)

DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/​2015047802

ebook ISBN 9780385540889

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