The Hidden Goddess is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

A Spectra Mass Market Original

 

Copyright © 2011 by Mary Hobson

 

All rights reserved.

 

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

 

SPECTRA and the portrayal of a boxed “s” are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

 

eISBN: 978-0-345-52639-7

 

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Cover illustration by David Stevenson

 

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