Mistle Child (Undertaken Trilogy) (45 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

copyright © 2013 by Ari Berk

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Book design by Laurent Linn

Map illustration by Drew Willis

The text for this book is set in Minister Std.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Berk, Ari.

Mistle child / Ari Berk.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(The Undertaken trilogy ; bk. 2)

Summary: As the only living resident of Arvale Manor, Silas must seek to understand the past and put an ancient wrong to right, as he discovers that even a house of ghosts can be haunted by its past.

ISBN 978-1-4169-9117-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-3916-0 (eBook)

[1. Fantasy. 2. Ghosts—Fiction. 3. Families—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B452293Mi 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2012002977