Copyright © 2012 by Kimberly Cash Tate

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Scripture quotations are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE^®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tate, Kimberly Cash.

 Hope Springs / Kimberly Cash Tate.

     p. cm.

 ISBN 978-1-59554-997-6 (trade paper)

 I. Title.

 PS3620.A885H67 2012

 813’.6--dc23

2012007533          

Printed in the United States of America

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