Deep Sleeper
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As early 20th-century immigrants to America, Arish and Nicola settled in different parts of the country. Generations later, their families' lives collide when a grandson stumbles onto one man's dark secret. What begins as research into a family tree project explodes into a mystery with frightening directions.
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