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in a small West Texas town with brick streets and a courthouse square. , The United States

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WISTERIA WINTER

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Two sisters caught up in a web of kidnapping, murder, and deceit.

Linzy and Sasha Everly are blessed with a near-perfect small-town life. Their only worries are making good grades in high school and helping out around the family’s tiny pecan farm. Life is good. And then in the dark of an ordinary night, their parents are taken from them, and their lives are upended forever. A short time later, a previously unknown relative comes to town claiming to be their new guardian. The two sisters think things couldn’t get any worse, until they do.

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	Stutter Creek (Stutter Creek, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lilac Lane (Stutter Creek, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All for Love 4.06 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Phantom Pilot (Phantom #1) 4.45 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Copper Lake (Stutter Creek, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Remains in the Pond 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Stevie-girl and the Phantom of Crybaby Bridge (Phantom #3) 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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These Trees

I'm a different sort. I like to think about things like trees. In my life, I've had two golden trees. One stood sentinel over our backyard in Denver City, when I was a young mom, and the other held sway over the front ya...

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“Birds have hollow bones so they can fly. Mine are solid; I'm still running along the ground flapping madly. Ann Swann”
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“The ribbons of his muscles slid freely across his bones. There was very little meat to him, just sinewy limbs, and a hardness beneath the flesh.”
― Ann Swann, Seekers: Apocalypse in Eden Book 2

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“After the apocalypse one learns what is most important.”
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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