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Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell

Back Roads

by Tawni O'Dell
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  • Mar 1, 2000, 338 pages
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  • Jan 2001, 416 pages
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I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She ran her thumb over my lips raw from kissing her and said survival was a talent.

Reprinted from Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell by permission of Viking Group, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Copyright (c) 2000 by Tawni O'Dell. All rights reserved. This excerpt, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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