Copyright © 2011 by Sandra Byrd

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All Old Testament Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version. Public domain. All New Testament Scripture quotations are taken fromTyndale’s New Testament. A modern-spelling edition of the 1534 translation with an introduction by David Daniell. Translated by William Tyndale. Copyright © 1989 by Yale University Press. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Byrd, Sandra.

To die for: a novel/Sandra Byrd.

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3552.Y678T6 2011


813′.54—dc22 2010048161

ISBN: 978-1439183113

ISBN: 978-1439183137 (ebook)

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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.


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Contents

Cover

Copyright



Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Author’s Note

Historical Bibliography

Reading Group Guide

PROLOGUE