title: Giving up the Ghost: A Georgia Mountain Mystery
author: Heather Olson
description: When growing up, Heather Olson spent week-ends in the north Georgia mountains with her family and heard numerous stories of how life was in the mountains before the interstate highways shortened the drive from the cities. She has used many of these stories in this, her first novel, set in those same mountains. Heather Olson has a Ph.D. from Georgia State University, and teaches English and Mythology at The Art Institute of Atlanta. She has traveled over much of the world and been the recipient of two Fulbright grants, one to Germany and one to Japan. She has two grown sons and now lives in Atlanta with her husband.
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  © 2016 Nancy Campbell Allen
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
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  ­Mountain®, at permissions@shadowmountain.com. The views expressed herein are
  the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the position
  of ­Shadow ­Mountain.
  
  
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  All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Names: Allen, Nancy Campbell, 1969– author.
  
  
  Title: Beauty and the clockwork beast / Nancy Campbell Allen.
  
  
  Description: Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain, [2016] | 2016
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2015041339 (print) | LCCN 2015042601 (ebook) | ISBN
  9781629721750 (paperbound) |