Rituals of the Season

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

All chapter epigraphs are from The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette by Florence Hartley. Boston: Lee and Shephard, 1873.

Copyright © 2005 by Margaret Maron

All rights reserved.

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First eBook Edition: August 2005

ISBN: 978-0-446-50952-7