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Robert morgan s gap creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. The paperback version was published by algonquin books of chapel hill on august 21, 2012. The first edition of the novel was published in 1999, and was written by robert morgan. Julie and hanks new life in the valley of gap creek in the last years of the nineteenth century is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
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