© 2002 by Lori Copeland

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ISBN 978-0-8499-4508-3 (trade paper)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Copeland, Lori.
      Stranded in paradise / by Lori Copeland.
        p. cm.
      ISBN 978-0-8499-4378-2
     1. Colorado—Fiction. I. Title.
   PS3553.06336 S77 2002
   813'.54—dc21

2002008987

Printed in the United States of America

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