Authors: Kerrelyn Sparks

The Forbidden Lady (30 page)

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OPYRIGHT

This book was originally published under the title
For Love or Country
in 2002 by Forge Books, an imprint of Macmillan.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Excerpt from
Wild About You
copyright © 2012 by Kerrelyn Sparks.

Excerpt from
Mating Season
copyright © 2012 Alice Brilmayer.

Excerpt from
Nine Lives of an Urban Panther
copyright © 2012 Amanda Arista.

Excerpt from
Last Vamp Standing
copyright © 2012 Kristin Miller.

THE FORBIDDEN LADY.
Copyright © 2002, 2012 by Kerrelyn Sparks. 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, 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.

EPub Edition OCTOBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062128775

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062128782

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