River Road (38 page)

ALSO BY CAROL GOODMAN

The Lake of Dead Languages

The Seduction of Water

The Drowning Tree

The Ghost Orchid

The Sonnet Lover

The Night Villa

Arcadia Falls

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Carol Goodman

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First Touchstone hardcover edition January 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Goodman, Carol.

 River Road/Carol Goodman.—First Touchstone hardcover edition.

 pages ; cm

 1. Women college teachers—Fiction. 2. Traffic accident victims—Fiction. 3. Hit-and-run drivers—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

 PS3607.O566R58 2016

 813'.6—dc23

     2015012488

ISBN 978-1-5011-0990-4

ISBN 978-1-5011-0992-8 (ebook)