Outfoxed

Outfoxed 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.

2005 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 1999 by American Artists, Inc.

Excerpt from The Hunt Ball copyright © 2005 by American Artists, Inc.

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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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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1999.

This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming edition of The Hunt Ball by Rita Mae Brown. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Brown, Rita Mae.

Outfoxed / Rita Mae Brown.

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3552.R698097 2000

813’.54—dc21 99-44243

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