Weapons of Mass Seduction

by Lori Bryant-Woolridge

  Read Between the Lies

  PUBLISHED BY HARLEM MOON

  Copyright © 2007 by Lori Bryant-Woolridge

  All Rights Reserved

  Published in the United States by Harlem Moon, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  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.

  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

  Bryant-Woolridge, Lori.

  Weapons of mass seduction / by Lori Bryant-Woolridge.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  1. African American women—Fiction. 2. Female friendship—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3573.O6863W43 2007

  813'.54—dc22

  2006034828

  eISBN: 978-0-7679-2784-0

  v3.0