Palace Circle (49 page)

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses,
organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the
product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Rebecca Dean

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dean, Rebecca.
Palace circle / by Rebecca Dean.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Young women—Virginia—Fiction. 2. Marriage—Fiction.
3. Nobility—England—Fiction. 4. Nineteen tens—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3604.E1537 2009
813’.6—dc22
2008021188

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