Faithful

  Second Nature

  Turtle Moon

  Seventh Heaven

  At Risk

  Illumination Night

  Fortune’s Daughter

  White Horses

  Angel Landing

  The Drowning Season

  Property Of

  YOUNG ADULT NOVELS

  Nightbird

  Green Heart: Green Angel & Green Witch

  Green Witch

  Incantation

  The Foretelling

  Green Angel

  Water Tales: Aquamarine & Indigo

  Indigo

  Aquamarine

  NONFICTION

  Survival Lessons

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hoffman, Alice.

  Faithful : a novel / Alice Hoffman. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

  pages ; cm

  I. Title.

  PS3558.O3447F35 2016

  813'.54—dc23

  2015024128

  ISBN 978-1-4767-9920-9

  ISBN 978-1-4767-9926-1 (ebook)

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  Selections from Faithful have appeared in The Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner,

  Five Points, Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, Story Quarterly,

  Iron Horse Literary Review, and Ploughshares.