At the Edge of Summer

At the Edge of Summer is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Jessica Brockmole

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Brockmole, Jessica.

At the edge of summer : a novel / Jessica Brockmole.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-345-54789-7 (hardcover : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-345-54790-3 (eBook)

1. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 2. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction. 3. First loves—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3602.R6324A95 2016

813'.6—dc23

2015028301

ebook ISBN 9780345547903

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Book design by Dana Leigh Blanchette, adapted for eBook

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Cover design: Marietta Anastassatos

Cover image: Richard Tuschman

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