Eight lanterns hold back the dark. Everyone has forgotten there was ever a ninth.
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Idris has never told the truth when a lie was available. Today he is on trial before the sea.
Someone is arguing with her favourite book in pencil. She needs to know who.
A seaside town in winter, a broken pinball machine, and a boy who is only here until March.
By day, Gran’s staircase has twelve steps. After dark, it has one more.
The messages are from her own number, and they arrive three minutes early.
She appears in six photographs and no records. Someone worked hard to make her disappear.
A storm, a washed-out bridge, one dead cryptographer, and five people who all had a reason.
On the day Kes is assigned her job for life, she notices the engines have stopped.
Two siblings, one canoe, and sixty miles of wilderness between them and help.
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