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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Colleen Tull

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition March 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Oakley, Colleen, author.

Title: Close enough to touch / by Colleen Oakley.

Description: First Gallery Books hardcover edition. | New York : Gallery Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016025218| ISBN 9781501139260 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501139291 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Love stories.

Classification: LCC PS3615.A345 C58 2017 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC

ISBN 978-1-5011-3926-0

ISBN 978-1-5011-3928-4 (ebook)