The Idea of Him

by Holly Peterson

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  Cover design by Mary Schuck

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  Copyright

  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.

  THE IDEA OF HIM. Copyright © 2014 by Holly Peterson. 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Peterson, Holly.

  The idea of him : a novel / Holly Peterson. — First edition.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-06-228310-8 (pbk.)

  1. Married women—Fiction. 2. Women in the professions—Fiction.

  3. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 4. Life change events—Fiction.

  5. Self-realization in women—Fiction. 6. New York (N.Y.)

  7. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

  PS3616.E8428I34 2014

  813'.6—dc23

  2013026570

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  EPub Edition APRIL 2014 ISBN: 9780062283115

  14 15 16 17 18 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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