Secret Magdalene (57 page)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2005, 2007 by Ki Longfellow

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in a different form by Eio Books, Brattleboro, in 2005.

CROWN is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Longfellow, Ki.

The secret Magdalene : a novel / Ki Longfellow.—1st ed.

1. Mary Magdalene, Saint—Fiction. 2. Christian women saints—Fiction. 3. Women in the Bible—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3612.O533S43                                             2005

813'.6—dc22                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2006015275

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eISBN: 978-0-307-39455-2

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