Vertical Burn (38 page)

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Authors: Earl Emerson

“Gosh,” she said. “I can’t believe how much we have in common.”

“It is amazing.”

Holly and I spoke on the phone a few times in March and then got together in April, dating off and on for about a month and a half. She ended up with the funny notion we were going to get married somewhere down the line. Odd how two people who’d started out sharing so much could have gotten their signals crossed like that.

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 2002 by Earl Emerson

Excerpt from
Into the Inferno
copyright © 2003 by Earl Emerson

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This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book
Into the Inferno
by Earl Emerson. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

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First Hardcover Edition: June 2002

First Mass Market Edition: February 2003

eISBN: 978-0-345-46672-3

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