A Christmas Grace

BY ANNE PERRY

THE CHRISTMAS NOVELS

A Christmas Journey

A Christmas Visitor

A Christmas Guest

A Christmas Secret

A Christmas Beginning

A Christmas Grace

A Christmas Grace is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perry, Anne.

A Christmas grace : a novel / Anne Perry.

p. cm.

1. Villages—Fiction. 2. Ireland—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. 4. Christmas stories. I. Title.

PR6066.E693C467 2008

823'.914—dc22

2008027998

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eISBN: 978-0-345-50981-9

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