Bury Me Deep

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

Copyright © 2009 by Megan Abbott

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Abbott, Megan E.

Bury me deep / Megan Abbott.

p. cm.

1. Physicians’ spouses—Fiction. 2. Female friendship—Fiction. 3. Phoenix (Ariz.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3601.B37B87 2009

813'.6—dc22 2008030676

ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0105-6

ISBN-10: 1-4391-0105-1

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