The Unclaimed Duchess (24 page)

Two of
JENNA PETERSEN
's childhood dreams were to be a ballerina and a baseball player. Those didn't work out, but she's pleased to be following another childhood dream, writing books for a living. And what better than romance, where dreams come true on every page? Jenna lives in central Illinois with her high school sweetheart husband and two taskmaster cats. She loves to hear from readers. Her website is
www.jennapetersen.com
.

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NCLAIMED
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ESIRES

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ESSONS FROM A
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IES

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ROM
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ONDON WITH
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OVE

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CANDALOUS

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE UNCLAIMED DUCHESS
. Copyright © 2010 by Jesse Petersen. 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.

First Avon Books paperback printing: September 2010

EPub Edition © July 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200886-2

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