Haunting Violet (30 page)

I leaned forward so my lips were so close to his they brushed lightly when I spoke. “I love
you
, Colin Lennox.”

His grin was crooked and wicked.

“Then we'll be just fine.”

Copyright © 2011 by Alexandra Harvey
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First published in the United States of America in June 2011
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Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Harvey, Alyxandra.
Haunting Violet / Alyxandra Harvey.
p. cm.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother's Spiritualist scam since she
was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can
actually see ghosts, one of whom wants Violet to solve her murder.
ISBN 978-0-8027-9839-8 (hardcover)
[1. Spiritualism—Fiction. 2. Ghosts—Fiction. 3. Social classes—Fiction. 4. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837—1901—Fiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.H267448Hau 2011    [Fic]—dc22    2010031077

ISBN 978-0-8027-2326-0 (e-book)