Linda Needham (26 page)

LINDA NEEDHAM credits her bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts, support from her fellow writers, and her hero-husband for her publishing achievements. Winning the RWA’s Golden Heart as an unpublished author and joining Avon Books two months later are among the highlights of her Fabulous Forties. Ten books, two stageplays,
three musical revues and the
USA Today
and Waldenbooks bestseller lists later, Linda has entered her Fantastic Fifties with brazenness, exaltation, and an RWA Top Ten Favorite Book of the Year award!

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www.lindaneedham.com
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T
HE
M
AIDEN
B
RIDE

T
HE
W
EDDING
N
IGHT

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

MY WICKED EARL.
Copyright © 2001 by Linda Needham. 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 HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition December 2007 ISBN 9780061750076

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