Before the Dawn (39 page)

BEVERLY JENKINS has received numerous awards, including three Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from
Romantic Times magazine
, and a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer¹s Guild. In 1999, Ms. Jenkins was voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC, the nations largest on-line African-American book club. To read more about Beverly, visit her website at
www.beverlyjenkins.net.

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A
N
I
NNOCENT
M
ISTRESS
: F
OUR
B
RIDES FOR

F
OUR
B
ROTHERS
by Rebecca Wade

T
HE
M
AIDEN AND
H
ER
K
NIGHT
by Margaret Moore

A M
ATTER OF
S
CANDAL
: W
ITH
T
HIS
R
ING

by Suzanne Enoch

R
OGUE'S
H
ONOR
by Brenda Hiatt

S
ECRET
V
OWS
by Mary Reed McCall

A
N
U
NLIKELY
L
ADY
by Rachelle Morgan

W
AR
C
LOUD'S
P
ASSION
by Karen Kay

Coming Soon

B
ELOVED
P
ROTECTOR
by Linda O'Brien

T
HE
M
AC
G
OWAN
B
ETROTHAL
: H
IGHLAND
R
OGUES

by Lois Greiman

And Don't Miss These
ROMANTIC TREASURES
from Avon Books

M
Y
W
ICKED
E
ARL
by Linda Needham

A N
OTORIOUS
L
OVE
by Sabrina Jeffries

T
HE
O
UTLAW AND THE
L
ADY
by Lorraine Heath

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

BEFORE THE DAWN
. Copyright © 2001 by Beverly Jenkins. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition January 2007 ISBN 9780061737671

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