About the Author
DEBRA JO IMMERGUT has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and a Michener Fellowship, and in 1992, she published the collection of short stories Private Property. Immergut has worked as a magazine editor and a journalist, and has been a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe. She has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has had work published in American Short Fiction and Narrative Magazine, and has taught writing in a variety of locations, including libraries, military bases, and prisons.
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Copyright
THE CAPTIVES. Copyright © 2018 by Debra Jo Immergut. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Immergut, Debra Jo, author.
Title: The captives : a novel / Debra Jo Immergut.
Description: First edition. | New York : Ecco, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017042689 (print) | LCCN 2017056643 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062747563 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062747549 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Prison psychologists—Fiction. | Family secrets—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Suspense fiction. gsafd | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Psychological. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3559.M5 (ebook) | LCC PS3559.M5 C37 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042689
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Digital Edition JUNE 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-274756-3
Version 04182018
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-274754-9
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