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

Copyright © 2012 by Amy Hill Hearth

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First Atria Paperback edition October 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hearth, Amy Hill, date.

Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society: a novel / Amy Hill Hearth.—1st Atria paperback ed.

p. cm.

1. Life change events—Fiction. 2. Literature—Societies, etc.—Fiction. 3. Florida—Intellectual life—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3608.E274M57 2012

813’.6—dc23

2012012180