A Season Beyond a Kiss

by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

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  “A PHENOMENON”

  The New York Times

  “WOODIWISS REIGNS!”

  Life

  “A MEGASTAR.”

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  “LIVE AND BREATHE THE WORLD

  KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS CREATES.”

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  Works by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

  The Birmingham Family Saga:

  The Flame and the Flower

  The Elusive Flame

  A Season Beyond a Kiss

  And also:

  Ashes in the Wind

  Come Love a Stranger

  Forever in Your Embrace

  Petals on the River

  A Rose in Winter

  Shanna

  So Worthy My Love

  The Wolf and the Dove

  The Reluctant Suitor

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  A SEASON BEYOND A KISS. Copyright © 2000 by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound™.

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  Mobipocket Reader April 2003 ISBN: 0-0607-6849-5

  First Avon Books paperback printing: March 2001

  First Avon Books trade paperback printing: March 2000

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