Crescent City Rhapsody

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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Copyright © 2000 by Kathleen Ann Goonan

Interior design by Kellan Peck

ISBN: 0-380-97711-7

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data:

Goonan, Kathleen Ann.

Crescent City Rhapsody / Kathleen Ann Goonan.—1st ed.

p. cm. I. Title.

PS3557.O628 C74 2000

813'.54 21—dc21 99-042227

First Avon Eos Printing: February 2000

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