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Authors: Victoria Christopher Murray

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Murray, Victoria Christopher.

Stand your ground / by Victoria Christopher Murray.—First Touchstone trade paperback edition.

pages ; cm

1. Trials (Murder)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.U795S73 2015

813'.54—dc23

2015003165

ISBN 978-1-4767-9299-6

ISBN 978-1-4767-9300-9 (ebook)

Contents

Why I Wrote Stand Your Ground

Part One: Janice Johnson

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Part Two: Meredith Spencer

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Part Three: Janice Johnson—Meredith Spencer

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Part Four: Wyatt Spencer

Chapter 37

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Reading Group Guide

About Victoria Christopher Murray

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