The Shifting Tide

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 2004 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Random House Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by

Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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The Shifting Tide is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products

of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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eISBN: 978-0-345-47830-6

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