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FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD EDITION, JUNE 2003

Copyright © 2002 by Nicola Griffith

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.

Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Crime/Black Lizard and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

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

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Nan A. Talese/Doubleday edition as follows:

Griffith, Nicola.

Stay : a novel / Nicola Griffith.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-4000-7561-4

1. Police—Georgia—Atlanta—Fiction. 2. Atlanta (Ga.)—Fiction. 3. Policewomen—Fiction. 4. Lesbians—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3557.R48935 S73 2002

813’.54—dc21 2001052474

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