Runaway Wife (49 page)

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Authors: Rowan Coleman

Tags: #Fiction, #Contemporary Women, #Family Life, #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 author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

Copyright © 2012 by Rowan Coleman

Originally published in 2012 in Great Britain by Arrow Books.

 

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Cover design by Anna Dorfman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Coleman, Rowan.

The Runaway Wife / Rowan Coleman.—First Gallery Books Trade paperback edition.

pages cm

“Originally published in 2012 in Great Britain by Arrow Books.”

1. Runaway wives—Fiction. 2. Wife abuse—Fiction. 3. Love stories. I. Title.

PR6103.O4426R86 2013

823’.92—dc23

2013009696

ISBN 978-1-4767-2523-9

ISBN 978-1-4767-2528-4 (ebook)

Contents
 

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

Epilogue

 

Acknowledgments

Readers Group Guide

Questions for Discussion

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