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Copyright © 2019 by Lexie Elliott

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Elliott, Lexie, author.

Title: The missing years / Lexie Elliott.

Description: First Edition. | New York: Berkley, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018043170 | ISBN 9780399586958 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399586965 (ebook)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6105.L588 M57 2019 | DDC 823/.92—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043170

International ISBN: 9781984804648

First Edition: April 2019

Cover art by Mark Owen / Arcangel

Cover design by Emily Osborne

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

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