The Lake of Dead Languages is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.


January 2006 Ballantine Books Mass Market Edition


Copyright © 2002 by Carol Goodman
Excerpt from The Ghost Orchid copyright © 2006 by Carol Goodman


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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2002.


This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming hardcover edition of The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.


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