Anastasia's Secret (28 page)

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CKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many thanks to my personal family and my writing family, who always support and nurture me through this process—especially Charles and Sue, but also Cassie and Chloé.

Of course, without my agent, Adam Chromy, and my editor, Melanie Cecka, this book would never have come about. I’m very fortunate to have two incredible cheerleaders in this difficult business.

I’d like to say a special thank-you to Raina Putter, my copyeditor, whose keen eye and expert knowledge of Russian history helped me polish the manuscript.

And finally, to all the others whose personal accounts and research helped me discover the world of the Romanovs in captivity, including Bob Atchison and Robert K. Massie, I say thank you.

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Copyright © 2010 by Susanne Dunlap

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First published in the United States of America in March 2010
by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
E-book edition published in March 2011
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Dunlap, Susanne Emily.
Anastasia’s secret / by Susanne Dunlap.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: As world war and the looming Russian Revolution threaten all they hold dear, Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, and her family are being held in captivity, where she falls in love with one of their captors.
ISBN 978-1-59990-420-7 (hardcover)
1. Anastasia Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia,
1901–1918—Juvenile fiction. [1. Anastasia, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II,
Emperor of Russia, 1901—1918—Fiction. 2. Princesses—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal
relations—Fiction. 4. Russia—History—Nicholas II, 1894—1917—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D92123An 2010    [Fic]—dc22   2009018257

E-book ISBN: 978-1-5999-0675-1