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  “Listen up. There’s been a change of plans. The government says I’ve got to deliver you to headquarters.”

  Sally felt her knees weaken. Bile rose to her throat, but she was too afraid to spit it out, and so she swallowed it back down, burning. She shook her head.

  “To the courthouse?” she asked.

  He laughed and patted her on the back. “If only it were that easy, darling. You see, they’re at the shore. Atlantic City.”

  “Oh no,” she said. “I can’t leave Camden, my mama would never let me. She’s sick. She needs me to help at home.” Sally shook her head. “My sister’s about to have a baby.”

  But then he pulled back his coat, and Sally could see the butt end of a gun sticking out from his waistband. Her vision started to darken around the edges.

  “Here’s what you’re gonna do,” he said.

  Also by T. Greenwood

  Rust & Stardust

  About the Author

  T. GREENWOOD’s novels have sold over 250,000 copies. She has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Her novel Bodies of Water was a 2014 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist; Two Rivers and Grace were each named Best General Fiction Book at the San Diego Book Awards, and Where I Lost Her was a Globe and Mail bestseller in 2016. Greenwood lives with her family in San Diego. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Epigraphs

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-one

  Chapter Twenty-two

  Chapter Twenty-three

  Chapter Twenty-four

  Chapter Twenty-five

  Chapter Twenty-six

  Chapter Twenty-seven

  Chapter Twenty-eight

  Chapter Twenty-nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-one

  Chapter Thirty-two

  Chapter Thirty-three

  Chapter Thirty-four

  Chapter Thirty-five

  Chapter Thirty-six

  Chapter Thirty-seven

  Chapter Thirty-eight

  Chapter Thirty-nine

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-one

  Author’s Note

  Teaser

  Also by T. Greenwood

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. As is true in many books of fiction, this book was inspired by historical events. Nevertheless, all of the actions in this book, as well as all of the characters and dialogue, are products solely of the author’s imagination.

  KEEPING LUCY. Copyright © 2019 by T. Greenwood. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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  Cover design by Olga Grlic

  Cover photographs: suitcases © Laura La Monaca / Offset.com; oranges © The Picture Pantry / Offset.com

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Greenwood, T. (Tammy), author.

  Title: Keeping Lucy / T. Greenwood.

  Description: First edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018055449 | ISBN 9781250164223 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250164247 (ebook)

  Classification: LCC PS3557.R3978 K44 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018055449

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  First Edition: August 2019