Fortune & Fame: A Novel (34 page)

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Authors: Victoria Christopher Murray,ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Tags: #Fiction, #Romance, #African American, #Christian, #Contemporary, #General

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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 authors’ imaginations, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley

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First Touchstone trade paperback edition February 2014

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Cover: photographs © George Kerrigan, background © Kamira/Shutterstock

ISBN 978-1-4767-4717-0

ISBN 978-1-4767-4718-7 (ebook)

Contents

A Note from Victoria

A Note from ReShonda

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

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