Copyright © 2003 by Gilbert Morris

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations for critical reviews and articles.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (KJV).

Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. All characters, plot, and events are the product of the author’s imagination. All characters are fictional, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morris, Gilbert.
    The exiles / Gilbert Morris, Lynn Morris.
      p. cm.—(The Creoles series)
    ISBN 0-7852-7002-7
   1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Cuban Americans—Fiction. 3. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction. 4. Creoles—Fiction. 5. Orphans—Fiction. I. Morris, Lynn. II. Title.
   PS3563.O8742 E97 2003
   813'.54—dc21

2002153546

Printed in the United States of America

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