Secrets (38 page)

BRENDA JOYCE is the best-selling, award-winning author of SCANDALOUS LOVE, THE FIRES OF PARADISE, and DARK FIRES. All eight of her historical romances have been highly acclaimed, and four of them, including the first three novels in the “Bragg” saga—INNOCENT FIRE, FIRESTORM and VIOLET FIRE—have won six awards from
Romantic Times
and
Affaire de Coeur
. She has also won three industry awards for her trendsetting promotional bookmarks and the 1991 Golden Pen Favored Author Award from
Affaire de Coeur
. Brenda Joyce is currently working on her new novel for Avon Books.

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SECRETS is an original publication of Avon Books. This work has never before appeared in book form. This work is a novel. Any similarity to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

SECRETS
. Copyright © 1993 by Brenda Joyce Senior. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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