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Captive

Iris Johansen
Chapters (24)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Chapter 1
  5. Chapter 2
  6. Chapter 3
  7. Chapter 4
  8. Chapter 5
  9. Chapter 6
  10. Chapter 7
  11. Chapter 8
  12. Chapter 9
  13. Chapter 10
  14. Chapter 11
  15. Chapter 12
  16. Chapter 13
  17. Chapter 14
  18. Chapter 15
  19. Chapter 16
  20. Chapter 17
  21. Epilogue
  22. Discover More
  23. About the Author
  24. Books by Iris Johansen(In Order of Publication)

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

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

Copyright © 2022 by IJ Development

Cover design by Faceout Studio, cover images © Arcangel and Shutterstock. Cover copyright © 2022 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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First Edition: September 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Johansen, Iris, author.
Title: Captive / Iris Johansen.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. |
     Series: Eve Duncan
Identifiers: LCCN 2022019473 | ISBN 9781538726297 (hardcover) |
     ISBN 9781538726594 (large print) | ISBN 9781538726327 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Spy fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction)
Classification: LCC PS3560.O275 C37 2022 | DDC 813/.54--dc23/eng
     /20220426
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022019473

ISBNs: 978-1-5387-2629-7 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-2659-4 (large print), 978-1-5387-2632-7 (ebook), 978-1-5387-2631-0 (Canadian trade paperback)

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Chapter 1

Chapter
1

MacDuff’s Run
Scotland

Where is she?” MacDuff asked impatiently. “I told you that she wasn’t to leave the castle without an escort, Fergus. Yet this is the third time this month that Jane MacGuire has slipped away from you.”

“It was the fog,” Fergus said quickly. “It was heavy this morning and the guards didn’t see her go out the gates. She didn’t stop to eat breakfast. She probably just took her sketchbook and went up to the hills to do some sketching.”

“And no maids or guards saw fit to question why it’s almost noon and no one has seen her yet?” MacDuff asked caustically. “I made a promise, and I don’t like the thought of breaking it. Do you understand?”