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    The Lace Maker's Silence book cover by Vera Blackthorne

    The Lace Maker's Silence

    by Vera Blackthorne

    A reclusive lace maker in Harmony Creek hasn't spoken a word in three years. When a journalist arrives to write her story, she discovers that the woman's silence conceals a web of secrets that someone in town would kill to protect.

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