Authors: Attica Locke

The Cutting Season (38 page)

Black Water Rising

Cover design by Amanda Kain

Cover photograph © Alfonso Bresciani Photography

Map illustration by Laura Hartman Maestro

Author’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is unintentional. Quirks and discrepancies in regional geography and/or history are the author’s choice.

THE CUTTING SEASON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN: 978-0-06-180205-8

Epub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062097743

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