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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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)