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  I’ve been asked by readers if Roland Vachon Chandler fathered any more sons. Well, I don’t know. We’ll just have to wait and see.

  In the meantime, thanks to all the new readers who have come to the party via Drake and his brothers. Thanks also to the many fans who have been with me since my first Avon title, Night Song, in 1994. This is my tenth year in the business. My, how time flies when you’re having fun!

  See you next time,

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  About the Author

  BEVERLY JENKINS has received numerous awards, including three Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times magazine, and a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer’s Guild. In 1999, Ms. Jenkins was voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC, the nation’s largest on-line African-American book club. To read more about Beverly, visit her website at www.beverlyjenkins.net.

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  By Beverly Jenkins

  BLACK LACE

  THE EDGE OF DAWN

  THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT

  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.

  BLACK LACE. Copyright © 2005 by Beverly Jenkins. 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, 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.

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