Hank & Chloe

by Jo-Ann Mapson

  The only myths he knew dealing with second chances ended in sorrow, but this wasn’t a myth, this was his life.

  He took his thumb out of his mouth and hung his hammer by the claw on the fence post. Take a deep breath, he told himself. Steady now, and don’t go expecting miracles. He stood by the fence, waiting. However complicated and remarkable the rest of his life was going to be, it was here now, come to claim him.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JO-ANN MAPSON is a writer, teacher, and poet. She is the author of the novels Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo, Shadow Ranch, Loving Chloe, and most recently The Wilder Sisters, and of the short story collection Fault Line. She lives in California.

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  COPYRIGHT

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  HANK & CHLOE. Copyright © 2007 by Jo-Ann Mapson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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.

  ePub edition January 2007 ISBN 9780061744846

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