title: Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance
author:  Jean Zimmerman 
description: <span class="h1"><strong>Questions for Jean Zimmerman</strong></span>
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
    
  
  Text copyright ©2012 by J. T. Geissinger  
  All rights reserved.
  
    
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
  
    
  
  Published by Montlake Romance  
  P.O. Box 400818  
  Las Vegas, NV 89140
  
    
  
  ISBN-13: 9781612183312  
  ISBN-10: 161218331X
  
    
  
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  To Jay, my knight in shining denim; thank you.
  
    
  
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  To my parents, Jean and Jim, for surviving  
  the surly teenage years; I owe you big time.
  
    
  
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  And to all those who dare to love...this one’s for you.
  
    
    
    
  
   _When love beckons to you follow him,_
  
    
  
   _Though his ways are hard and steep._
  
    
  
   _And when hi