Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
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Copyright
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 © 2016 by Kimberla Lawson Roby
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Roby, Kimberla Lawson, author.
Title: A sinful calling / Kimberla Lawson Roby.
Description: First Edition | New York ; Boston : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. | Series: A Reverend Curtis Black novel
Identifiers: LCCN 2016001566 | ISBN 9781455559596 (hardback) | ISBN 9781478929901 (audio download) | ISBN 9781455559589 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. | African American women—Fiction. | Urban fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / African American / Christian. | FICTION / African American / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Classification: LCC PS3568.O3189 S57 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016001566
ISBNs: 978-1-4555-5959-6 (hardcover), 978-1-4555-5958-9 (ebook), 978-1-4555-6893-2 (Walmart edition)
E3 201600420-DA-PC
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