The From-Aways

by CJ Hauser

  —Vendela Vida, author of The Lovers and

  Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

  “CJ Hauser’s debut novel, The From-Aways, is as charming, salty, and fresh as its setting in small-town Maine. Through her spunky heroines, Leah and Quinn, who have both come to Maine to find roots, Hauser tells an affecting story about lobsters, loyalty, and love.”

  —Elliott Holt, author of You Are One of Them

  Credits

  Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

  Cover photograph © by plainpicture/Lubitz + Dorner

  Author photograph by Shannon Taggart

  Copyright

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  THE FROM-AWAYS. Copyright © 2014 by CJ Hauser. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

  ISBN 978-0-06-231075-0

  EPub Edition JUNE 2014 ISBN: 9780062310767

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