by Karen Hall
And, one more time, I am grateful to my sister, writer extraordinaire Barbara Hall, for the day she said, “Just shut up and write the damned thing.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In her career as a writer, producer, and creative consultant, Karen Hall has worked on numerous series, including M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, Judging Amy, Northern Exposure, and The Good Wife. She has received seven Emmy Award nominations, as well as the Humanitas Prize, the Women in Film Luminas Award, and the Writers Guild of America Award. Her first and only novel, Dark Debts, was a Book of the Month Club main selection when first published in 1996 and has been translated into French, German, and Japanese. She continues to work in show business. She is an adjunct professor at Appalachian State University. She and her husband own Black Bear Books, an independent bookstore in Boone, North Carolina.
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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 © 1996 by Karen Hall, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-5011-0411-4
ISBN 978-1-5011-0413-8 (ebook)
