The Heavens Rise

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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 © 2013 by Christopher Rice

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition October 2013

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Author photograph by Gwen and Eddie Photography

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rice, Christopher, 1979-

The heavens rise / Christopher Rice.—First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

pages cm

1. Teenagers—Louisiana—New Orleans.—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.I2717H43 2013

813’.54—dc23

2013014568

ISBN 978-1-4767-1608-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-1610-7 (ebook)