The Beautiful Daughters (37 page)

Photograph by Ellenvelde Photography

Nicole Baart is the mother of four children from four different countries. The cofounder of a non-profit organization, One Body One Hope, she lives in a small town in Iowa. She is the author of seven previous novels, including, most recently, 
Sleeping in Eden. 
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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.

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Interior design by Jaime Putorti

Cover Design by Laywan Kwan

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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)