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Scary in places, intriguing, sharp tongued and linebyline continuously and effortlessly funny right through to the very end. An admitted aficionado of a good scary tale, she began the wedding gift following a visit to new orleans, where she saw a beautiful antebellum house and began imagining what if there were a beautiful young girl from the wrong side of the tracks who married her way in and then what if there was already a ghost there. The wedding gift by marlen suyapa bodden goodreads. Welcome to kathleen goutos and zack ignazios wedding website. Why not let a big, beautiful book commemorate your friends or love ones marriage in a. She lived in dalton oklahoma, where they had their very own ghost story and hunted house. The wedding gift by kathleen mckenna is oddly addictive. The second in the series, the comeback, will be published by night publishing in late 2010.
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