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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 © 2015 by Nicole Baart

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  Interior design by Jaime Putorti

  Cover Design by Laywan Kwan

  Photograph of Girls & Ilina Simeonova / Trevillion Images

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  Manufactured in the United States of America

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Baart, Nicole.

  The beautiful daughters: a novel / Nicole Baart.

  pages cm

  Summary: “Two best friends—soul sisters—experience a traumatic event and find themselves quite literally flung to opposite corners of the earth. Five years later, they return home to Iowa to confront the secrets that tore them apart and, hopefully, find redemption”—Provided by publisher.

  1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Life change events—Fiction.

  3. Secrets—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3602.A22B43 2015

  813'.6—dc23

  2014049133

  ISBN 978-1-4391-9738-7

  ISBN 978-1-4391-9739-4 (ebook)