Magnolia (32 page)

ALSO BY KRISTI COOK

Haven

Mirage

Eternal

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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This Simon Pulse edition August 2014

Text copyright © 2014 by Kristina Cook Hort

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cook, Kristi.

Magnolia / by Kristi Cook. — 1st Simon Pulse hardcover edition.

p. cm.

Summary: High school seniors Ryder and Jemma have been at odds for four years, despite their mothers' lifelong plan that they will marry one day, but when a storm ravages their small Mississippi town, the pair's true feelings are revealed.

[1. Family life—Mississippi—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. College choice—Fiction. 4. Love—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction. 7. Mississippi—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C76984Mag 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013050999

ISBN 978-1-4424-8535-8 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4424-8534-1 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4424-8536-5 (eBook)