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Also by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Queen City Jazz
Mississippi Blues
The Bones of Time
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and
incidents either are the product of the authorтАЩs
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or
dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of
either the author or the publisher.
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Copyright ┬й 2000 by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Interior design by Kellan Peck
ISBN: 0-380-97711-7
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data:
Goonan, Kathleen Ann.
 Crescent City Rhapsody / Kathleen Ann Goonan.тАФ1st
ed.
p. cm. I. Title.
PS3557.O628 C74 2000
813'.54 21тАФdc21 99-042227
First Avon Eos Printing: February 2000
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For Skylar, Jazz, and Sean:
The best is always yet to come.


Acknowledgments and Thanks
For his constant emotional support as I wrote this book, I am
grateful, as always, to my husband Joseph. He also maintains my
website at www.goonan. com.
To Jennifer Brehl, my astute and patient editor, my heartfelt
thanks.
Sean StewartтАЩs thorough critique helped immensely, as does the
Edge group in general.
Thanks to Joseph Kirschvink of Cal Tech for his permission to quote