Hush (44 page)

THE BANNING SISTERS TRILOGY

Shameless

Irresistible

Scandalous

OTHER TITLES BY KAREN ROBARDS

Her Last Whisper

Hunted

The Last Kiss Goodbye

Shiver

The Last Victim

Sleepwalker

Justice

Shattered

Pursuit

Guilty

Obsession

Vanished

Superstition

Bait

Beachcomber

Whispers at Midnight

To Trust a Stranger

Paradise County

Ghost Moon

The Midnight Hour

The Senator's Wife

Heartbreaker

Hunter's Moon

Walking After Midnight

Maggy's Child

One Summer

Nobody's Angel

This Side of Heaven

Dark of the Moon

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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 © 2014 by Karen Robards

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition December 2014

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Cover design by Lisa Litwack

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Author photograph by Brian Velenchenko

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Robards, Karen.

Hush / Karen Robards.—First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

pages : cm

1. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.O196H87 2014

813'.54-dc23   2014041178

ISBN 978-1-4767-6658-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-6662-1 (ebook)