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The Briars: A Novel

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Sarah Crouch captures the eerie chill of the Pacific Northwest in this emotionally charged thriller about a small town with dark secrets tucked away in its lush landscape.

The USA TODAY bestselling author of Middletide returns with a lush and atmospheric novel “thrumming with suspense” (Kimi Cunningham Grant, USA TODAY bestselling author) as it follows a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own.

When a cougar is spotted in Lake Lumin, a picturesque mountain town in the Pacific Northwest, Annie Heston, the community’s new game warden, does her best to warn residents of the danger. But she...

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