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Cover of The Kept by James Scott

The Kept

2013·357 pages

Historical Fiction Mystery

After her husband and four of her children are brutally murdered in the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell, along with her surviving son, twelve-year-old Caleb, takes on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family.

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The Kept

Year

2013

Pages

357

Historical Fiction Mystery Thriller

Description

After her husband and four of her children are brutally murdered in the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell, along with her surviving son, twelve-year-old Caleb, takes on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family.

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