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Authors: Yangsze Choo

Tags: #Romance, #Fantasy, #Adult, #Historical

BOOK: The Ghost Bride
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About the Author

YANGSZE CHOO is a fourth-generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Harvard, she worked as a management consultant and at a start-up before writing her first novel. She lives in California with her husband and their two children, and loves to eat and read (often at the same time).

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Credits

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover photograph © by Vanessa Ho / Trevillion Images

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

THE GHOST BRIDE.
Copyright © 2013 by Yangsze Choo. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-222732-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-06-227553-0 (international edition)

EPub Edition AUGUST 2013 ISBN 9780062227386

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