The White Gates

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2008 by Bonnie Ramthun

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Ramthun, Bonnie.

  The White Gates / by Bonnie Ramthun.—1st ed.

  Summary: When his mother becomes the doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, twelve-year-old Tor learns of a curse placed on the town’s doctors many years before by an eccentric Ute woman, but suspects that a modern-day villain is hiding behind that curse.

  [1. Blessing and cursing—Fiction. 2. Snowboarding—Fiction. 3. Physicians—Fiction. 4. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Moving, Household—Fiction. 7. Ute Indians—Fiction. 8. Indians of North America—Colorado—Fiction. 9. Colorado—Fiction. 10. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.

  PZ7.R1485Whi 2008 [Fic]—dc22 2007012800

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