K.H. Leigh
ASIN: B018IT0PIG
Publisher: K.H. Leigh
Pages: 324
Sprawled across the winding bell tower stairs of the village church, with unseeing eyes that glow orange in the breaking dawn light, lies the corpse of mysterious stranger - and standing a few steps below, looking up at the body, is 11-year-old Annabelle Knopp.A few days later, as she and the other villagers watch the stranger's body being lowered into his grave, Annabelle assumes it is the last she will ever see of him.She is wrong.The dead man on the church steps was only the first unexpected event to strike the quiet village on the hill to the North. Soon after, an odd little man who can turn into birds appears in the Wood, a menacing shadow stalks the Wild, and villagers begin to disappear from their beds.When her parents go missing, Annabelle enlists the help of her friend Turo on a dangerous journey to save them. Accompanied by a magical bird who ferries the dead to the ...