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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE LAST HEIRESS

Copyright © 2015 by Mary Ellis

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ellis, Mary,

The last heiress / Mary Ellis.

pages; cm

ISBN 978-0-7369-5052-7 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-5053-4 (eBook)

1. Heiresses—Fiction. 2. Abolitionists—Fiction. 3. Man-woman relationships—Fiction.

4. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Fiction. I Title.

PS3626.E36L37 2015

813'.6—dc23

2014027020

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