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  RICHARD PAUL EVANS is the #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box. Each of his more than thirty novels has been a New York Times bestseller. There are more than twenty-five million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Mothers Book Award, the Romantic Times Best Women’s Novel of the Year Award, the German Audience Gold Award for Romance, four Religion Communicators Council Wilbur Awards, the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award, and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children. You can learn more about Richard on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RPEfans or read his blog at www.richardpaulevans.com.

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  The Mistletoe Collection

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  The Mistletoe Inn

  The Walk Series

  The Walk

  Miles to Go

  The Road to Grace

  A Step of Faith

  Walking on Water

  The Four Doors

  A Winter Dream

  Lost December

  Promise Me

  The Christmas List

  Grace

  The Gift

  Finding Noel

  The Sunflower

  A Perfect Day

  The Last Promise

  The Christmas Box Miracle

  The Carousel

  The Looking Glass

  The Locket

  The Letter

  Timepiece

  The Christmas Box

  For Children and Young Adults

  The Dance

  The Christmas Candle

  The Spyglass

  The Tower

  The Light of Christmas

  The Michael Vey Series

  Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

  Michael Vey 2: Rise of the Elgen

  Michael Vey 3: Battle of the Ampere

  Michael Vey 4: Hunt for Jade Dragon

  Michael Vey 5: Storm of Lightning

  Michael Vey 6: Fall of Hades

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Evans, Richard Paul, author.

  Title: The mistletoe secret : a novel / Richard Paul Evans.

  Description: First Simon & Shuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016041160 (print) | LCCN 2016048543 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501119811 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501119828 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Christmas stories. | BISAC: FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Christian / General. | GSAFD: Love stories.

  Classification: LCC PS3555.V259 M575 2016 (print) | LCC PS3555.V259 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016041160

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  ISBN 978-1-5011-1981-1

  ISBN 978-1-5011-1982-8 (ebook)