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Snowbound secrets, shifter wars, family lies, and epic battles — September delivers it all.

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Some promises cost you the one you love.

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The Temple of Kronos wants her dead. The Stoneslayer wants her destroyed. Neither will have her.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.

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Betrayal runs in her blood. Justice runs in his. Together, they burn it all down.

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"ANOTHER WINNER!"
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Running from her past, she finds a killer, a protector, and her faith.

The Quiet Child by John Burley

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Also by John Burley:

Surrender the Dead, January 2021
Paperback / e-Book
The Quiet Child, August 2017
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The Forgetting Place, February 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Absence Of Mercy, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)

THE QUIET CHILD
By: John Burley

William Morrow
August 2017
On Sale: August 8, 2017
304 pages
ISBN: 0062431854
EAN: 9780062431851
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Suspense | Mystery Historical

It’s the summer of 1954, and the residents of Cottonwood, California, are dying. At the center of it all is six- year-old Danny McCray, a strange and silent child the townspeople regard with fear and superstition, and who appears to bring illness and ruin to those around him. Even his own mother is plagued by a disease that is slowly consuming her. Sheriff Jim Kent, increasingly aware of the whispers and rumors surrounding the boy, has watched the people of his town suffer—and he worries someone might take drastic action to protect their loved ones. Then a stranger arrives, and Danny and his ten-year-old brother, Sean, go missing. In the search that follows, everyone is a suspect, and the consequences of finding the two brothers may be worse than not finding them at all.

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