Lost December

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ALSO BY RICHARD PAUL EVANS

The Walk Series:

The Walk

Miles to Go

Promise Me

The Christmas List

Grace

The Gift

Finding Noel

The Sunflower

A Perfect Day

The Last Promise

The Christmas Box Miracle

The Carousel

The Looking Glass

The Locket

The Letter

Timepiece

The Christmas Box

For Children and Young Adults

The Dance

The Christmas Candle

The Spyglass

The Tower

The Light of Christmas

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

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Copyright © 2011 by Richard Paul Evans

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Evans, Richard Paul.
Lost December : a novel / Richard Paul Evans.
—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
p. cm.
1. Christmas stories. I. Title.
PS3555.V259L68 2011
813’.54—dc23                        2011035082

            ISBN 978-1-4516-2800-5 (print)

            ISBN 978-1-4516-2802-9 (eBook)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A
sincere thank you to all my friends at Simon & Schuster, for all they do and have done to share my books with the world for nearly two decades.

To my Father, with love
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