All Hail the Queen (31 page)

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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.

Copyright 2015 by Niobia Bryant

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First Touchstone trade paperback edition February 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mink, Meesha.

All hail the queen : an urban tale / Meesha Mink.—First Touchstone trade paperback edition.

pages ; cm

1. African American women—Fiction. 2. Attempted murder—Fiction. 3. Revenge—Fiction. 4. Newark (N.J.)—Fiction. 5. Urban fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.R8945A79 2015

813'.54—dc23

2014038803

ISBN 978-1-4767-5535-9

ISBN 978-1-4767-5538-0 (ebook)