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    Secrets I Have Kept
    Secrets I Have Kept
    Secrets I Have Kept
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    Secrets I Have Kept

    By Beverly Stowe McClure

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    One rainy spring night, on a dark Texas back road, sixteen-year-old Jennifer Barret's father, Sam, a molecular biologist at Orion Laboratories, is kidnapped. Armed with nothing more than her own courage, a phone number on a candy wrapper, and her loyal dog, Chopin, she begins a desperate attempt to rescue him. On the way to her neighbor Mitch Pearson's house for help, Jen meets Casey Christopher, a runaway on a quest of his own-to find his father who walked out on Casey and his mother thirteen years earlier. As they attempt to piece together the clues that keep turning up in unusual places, a chilling secret is revealed

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWings ePress, Inc.
    Release dateJun 4, 2023
    ISBN9781590884874
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