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

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SIMON PULSE

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This Simon Pulse hardcover edition April 2017

Text copyright © 1997 by Lisa J. Smith

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Library of Congress Control Number 2016948193

ISBN 978-1-4814-8940-9 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4814-8941-6 (eBook)