Early Decision (39 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For encouragement early and often, thank you to my parents and to the late Marion Strickland of the Lake Forest Book Store. Thank you to Chris Lynch for imagination and wit. Thank you to Carrie Feron for transforming a manuscript into a book, and to Christina Clifford, exceptional reader and advocate. Thank you to Stephen Grosz; to Maggie, forever free on the Heath; and, each day, to my E.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

For fifteen years
LACY CRAWFORD
served as a highly discreet independent college admissions counselor to the children of powerful clients in cities such as New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. Her “day jobs” included serving as senior editor at
Narrative Magazine
and director of the Burberry Foundation. Educated at Princeton and the University of Chicago, Lacy lives in California with her husband and two children.

 

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CREDITS

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

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COPYRIGHT

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

EARLY DECISION.
Copyright © 2013 by Lacy Crawford. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-224061-3

EPUB Edition © September 2013 ISBN 9780062240705

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