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Copyright © Jeanne Mackin, 2014
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA:
Mackin, Jeanne.
The beautiful american/Jeanne Mackin.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-101-63562-9
1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Missing children—Fiction. 3. Americans—France—Fiction. 4. Aliens—Europe—Fiction. 5. World War, 1939–1945—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A3169B43 2014
813'.54—dc23 2013049784
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.