Hallow Hill
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Last published Tue, Jul 28, 2020
Joanna Clarke is freshly seventeen and ready to take on the world--for the most part.
Joanna knows that she should feel ready, but with the entire Hallow Hill parish buzzing about the indoctrination and her past, it leaves her curious and longing to know more about the life that had ended when she'd been left on the doorstep of the church as a baby with four others. Now, a mysterious man has come to town, and claims to know not only the secrets of her past, but those of her future as well. With the indoctrination weeks away, she and the other chosen delve into buried secrets to discover what their church has in store for them.
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