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    A Home for the Holidays
    A Home for the Holidays
    A Home for the Holidays
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    A Home for the Holidays

    By Valerie Douglas

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    A heartwarming short story of a trip to the grocery store that helps teach what love and family really mean.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherValerie Douglas
    Release dateNov 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370423347
    A Home for the Holidays
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    Valerie Douglas

    Valerie Douglas is a prolific writer and a genre-crosser, much to the delight of her fans. A fan of authors from almost every genre, she writes classic fantasy, romance, suspense, horror, and, as V.J. Devereaux, erotic romance. Happily married, she's companion to two dogs, three cats and an African clawed frog named Hopper who delights in tormenting the cats from his tank.

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      A Home for the Holidays - Valerie Douglas

      A Home for the Holidays

      A Home for the Holidays

      Valerie Douglas

      A Home for the Holidays

      Copyright © 2017 Valerie Douglas

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      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

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