Sand Sharks

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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.

Copyright © 2009 by Margaret Maron

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England: Volumes I–IV by Sir William Blackstone, originally published 1765–1769 (The Avalon Project, Yale Law School).

Roman Civilization: Volume II by Naphtali Lewis & Meyer Reinhold © 1955 Columbia University Press

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats, 1893.

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