Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County (32 page)

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Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hearth, Amy Hill, date.

  Miss Dreamsville and the lost heiress of Collier County : a novel / Amy Hill Hearth.—First Atria Paperback edition.

    pages ; cm

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

  PS3608.E274M58 2015

  813'.6—dc23  2014040719

ISBN 978-1-4767-6574-7

ISBN 978-1-4767-6575-4 (ebook)