A Christmas Promise

A Christmas Promise is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Perry, Anne.

A Christmas promise : a novel / Anne Perry.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-51667-1

1. Poor children—England—London—Fiction. 2. City and

town life—England—London—Fiction. 3. East End (London,

England)—Fiction. 4. Christmas stories. I. Title.

PR6066.E693C473 2009b

823′.914—dc22 2009035431

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