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  I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses

  I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

  I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places

  Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?

  Have a Nice Guilt Trip

  Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim

  Best Friends, Occasional Enemies

  My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space

  Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  LISA SCOTTOLINE is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of more than thirty novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States, has been published in thirty-five countries, and her thrillers have been optioned for television and film. Lisa also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and those stories have been adapted into a series of bestselling memoirs, the first of which is entitled Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog. Lisa lives on a Pennsylvania farm with an array of disobedient pets. Visit www.scottoline.com or follow Lisa on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram at @LisaScottoline, or sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  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

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Chapter Forty-Seven

  Chapter Forty-Eight

  Chapter Forty-Nine

  Chapter Fifty

  Epilogue

  Acknowledgments

  Also by Lisa Scottoline

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  FEARED. Copyright © 2018 by Smart Blonde, LLC. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover design by Rob Grom

  Cover photograph © Elisabeth Ansley/Arcangel

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

  Names: Scottoline, Lisa, author.

  Title: Feared / Lisa Scottoline.

  Description: First edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Series: A Rosato & Associates novel

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018022095 | ISBN 9781250099594 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250198327 (signed) | ISBN 9781250099617 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Rosato & Associates (Imaginary organization)—Fiction. | Women lawyers—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Thrillers. | GSAFD: Legal stories. | Suspense fiction.

  Classification: LCC PS3569.C725 F43 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022095

  eISBN 9781250099617

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  First Edition: August 2018