Stand by Me: A SouledOut Sisters Novel

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Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to real events, businesses, organizations, and locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jackson, Neta.

Stand by me : a SouledOut sisters novel / Neta Jackson.

p. cm. -- (A SouledOut sisters novel ; bk. 1)

ISBN 978-1-59554-864-1 (trade paper)

1. Christian women--Fiction. 2. Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3560.A2415S73 2012

813’.54--dc23

2011048495

Printed in the United States of America

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