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Copyright © 2015 by Kristy Woodson Harvey.
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eBook ISBN: 978-0-698-19020-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harvey, Kristy Woodson.
Dear Carolina / Kristy Woodson Harvey.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-425-27998-4 (paperback)
1. Single mothers—Fiction. 2. Teenage mothers—Fiction. 3. Adoption—Fiction. 4. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 5. Love, Maternal—Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. 7. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A78914 2015
813'.6—dc23
2014035473
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Berkley trade paperback edition / May 2015
Cover Photo of “Woman” © Maggie McCall/ Trevillion Images.
Cover design by Diana Kolsky.
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.