Cream of the Crop (33 page)

ALSO BY ALICE CLAYTON

The Hudson Valley Series

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The Redhead Revealed

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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.

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition July 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Clayton, Alice, author.

Title: Cream of the crop / Alice Clayton.

Description: First Gallery Books trade paperback edition. | New York : Gallery Books, 2016. | Series: Hudson Valley series ; 2

Identifiers: LCCN 2016010533 (print) | LCCN 2016017343 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501118159 (softcover) | ISBN 9781501118166 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Women executives—Fiction. | Man-woman relationships—­Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. | FICTION / ­Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Love stories.

Classification: LCC PS3603.L3968 C74 2016 (print) | LCC PS3603.L3968 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at
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ISBN 978-1-5011-1815-9

ISBN 978-1-5011-1816-6 (ebook)