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  We would also like to thank our mutual agent, Wendy Lawton, for introducing us and arranging this co-authored project. Thanks also to Sue Brower, Alicia Mey, Becky Philpott, and all the good folks at Zondervan for working so hard to make this book a success.

  Lori and Ginny

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  About the Authors

  LORI COPELAND is a bestselling author whose books include Now and Always, Simple Gifts, Unwrapping Christmas, and Monday Morning Faith, which was a finalist for the 2007 Christy Awards. Lori was inducted into the Springfield Writers Hall of Fame in 2000 and lives in the beautiful Ozarks with her husband and family.

  VIRGINIA SMITH is the author of more than a dozen novels. Her books have been named finalists in the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence and the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Book of the Year Award. When she isn’t writing or speaking, Ginny and her husband, Ted, enjoy exploring the extremes of nature. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Copeland, Lori.

  Lost melody : a novel / Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-310-28986-9 (softcover)

  1. Women pianists — Fiction. I. Smith, Virginia, 1960 - II. Title.

  PS3553.O6336L67 2011

  813’.54 — dc22 2011022690

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