The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls

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Berkley trade paperback edition / August 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN : 978-1-101-51751-2

1. Teenage mothers—Fiction. 2. Unmarried mothers—Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 4. Hotelkeepers—Fiction. 5. Bed and breakfast accommodations—Fiction. 6. Birthfathers—Identification—Fiction. 7. Wake services—Fiction.