Ice Shear (38 page)

Upstate New York deserves special mention. I'm so proud to have been raised there, and it doesn't deserve the pain and suffering I've inflicted upon it. Residents of the Capital District will no doubt be able to identify the fictional Hopewell Falls, but do know that the people and events are complete fiction.

Thank you to the relatives and friends who supported and encouraged me, including my mother, Maureen Kelly Cooley, and sisters, Bridget and Mary, as well as Vicky and David Baron, Jackie Dion, Michelle Ginthner, Megan Griffith, Rik Nicholson, Kathy Riggins, Deane Shokes, Daryl Sprehn, and so many others.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A native of upstate New York,
M. P. COOLEY
currently lives in Campbell, California. This is her first novel.

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CREDITS

Cover Design by Amanda Kain

Cover Photographs: Icicles © by Ettore Marzocchi / Getty Images;

Background © by David M. Schrader Author Photograph © by Craig Sherod Photography

Art on the title page and the chapter-opening pages © argus/Shutterstock, Inc.

COPYRIGHT

William Stafford, “Ask Me” from
The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems.
Copyright © 1977, 1998 by William Stafford and the Estate of William Stafford. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

ICE SHEAR
. Copyright © 2014 by Martha Cooley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-230070-6

EPub Edition JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780062300713

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