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      Copyright © 2007 by MaryJanice Davidson

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      eISBN-13: 978-0-7582-6854-9

      eISBN-13: 0-7582-6854-8

      First Brava Books Trade Paperback Printing: February 2007

      First Brava Books Mass-Market Paperback Printing: March

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      For all the readers who were willing to buy this hard-to-find e-book for hundreds of dollars. I, personally, don’t think any book (certainly not one of mine) is worth hundreds of dollars, so I asked Brava to publish it in paperback. It was my editor’s brilliant idea to reprint Thief of Hearts as well as a sequel (in novella form) in one paperback anthology; the smallish single title plus a follow-up novella, a novel (heh) idea that I immediately pounced on. So this is for Kate Duffy, too.