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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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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition September 2013

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Emerson, Kate.

Royal inheritance / Kate Emerson.—First Gallery books trade paperback edition.

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1. Inheritance and succession—Fiction. I. Title.