title: The Forever Marriage: A novel
author:  Ann Bauer 
description: "Funny, surprising and gratifyingly honest, this novel poses unsparing questions about love and betrayal and the reasons we make the choices we do." --<i>MORE</i> magazine <br /><br />"With lovely prose and fine pacing, Bauer offers a sensitive portrait of a flawed woman coming to terms with a lifetime of regrets." --<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred review) <br /><br />"Bauer and <i>The Forever Marriage</i> poignantly and powerfully illustrate the great and often tragic ironies of life." --<i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i>
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  You Are Destined to Be Together Forever is a work of fiction. Names,
  characters, places, and incidents either 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.
  
  A Bantam Books eBook Original
  
  Copyright © 2014 by Dean Koontz
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a
  division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
  
  BANTAM BOOKS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House
  LLC.
  
  eBook ISBN 9780804180931
  
  Cover design: Scott Biel
  
  Cover images: (man) Claudio Marinesco; (woman) © Stephen Carroll/Trevillion
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  Contents
  
  [Cover](kindle:embed:0002?mime=image/jpg)
  
  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos158)
  
  [Copyright](index_split_001.html#filepos355)
  
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