The Flood Girls (47 page)

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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 © 2016 by Richard Fifield

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition February 2016

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Interior design by Jaime Putorti

Jacket illustration by Jim Tierney

Author photograph by Ed Wrzesien

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fifield, Richard

The flood girls : a novel / by Richard Fifield. — First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

pages cm

1. Single women—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Small cities—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3606.I375F56 2015

813'.6—dc23

2014039373

ISBN 978-1-4767-9738-0

ISBN 978-1-4767-9740-3 (ebook)