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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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Interior design by Akasha Archer

Jacket design by Ervin Serrano

Jacket photographs: ice structure © Shutterstock, chain © James A. Guilliam/Photolibrary/Getty Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jance, Judith A.

Cold Betrayal : an Ali Reynolds novel / J.A. Jance. — First Touchstone hardcover edition.

pages ; cm. — (Ali Reynolds series) “A Touchstone book.”

1. Reynolds, Ali (Fictitious character)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3560.A44C65 2015

813'.54—dc23

2014029530

ISBN 978-1-4767-4504-6

ISBN 978-1-4767-4507-7 (ebook)

Contents

Epigraph

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Reading Group Guide

About the Author