Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

RANSOME’S CROSSING
Copyright © 2010 by Kaye Dacus
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dacus, Kaye, 1971-

Ransome’s crossing / Kaye Dacus.

p. cm.—(The Ransome trilogy ; bk. 2)

ISBN 978-0-7369-2754-3 (pbk.)

1. Ship captains—Fiction. 2. Single women—Fiction. 3. Married people—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3604.A25R355 2010

813’.6—dc22

2009052333

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