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

Copyright © 2005 by Dorothy Garlock
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First eBook Edition: May 2005

ISBN: 978-0-446-50998-5

Cover illustration by Wendell Minor