Bellagrand: A Novel (64 page)

Alexander waits and waits. He falls asleep in the chair, his head pressed into the rocking wooden table.

About the Author

PAULLINA SIMONS
is the author of the acclaimed novels
Tully, Red Leaves, Eleven Hours
, and
The Bronze Horseman
. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, she graduated from Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas, and has lived in Rome, London, and Dallas. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and half of her children.

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Credits

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover images: woman © by Aria Baro/Trevillion Images; beach © by Macduff Everton/Getty Images

Copyright

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.

BELLAGRAND
. Copyright © 2013 by Paullina Simons. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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.

Maps copyright © Nicolette Caven

This book was previously published in 2013 by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN 978-0-06-209813-9

EPUB Edition APRIL 2014 ISBN 9780062098146

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