The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr

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Copyright © 2012 by Sandra Byrd

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First Howard Books trade paperback edition June 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Byrd, Sandra.

The secret keeper : a novel of Kateryn Parr / Sandra Byrd.—1st Howard Books trade paperback ed.

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3552.Y678S43 2012

813'.54—dc23 2011034743

ISBN: 978-1439183144 (print)

ISBN: 978-1439183151 (eBook)

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.