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Pastime

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Pastime is a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father's rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother's sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.

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This time, it's more than a routine search for a missing person—Spenser must search his own soul...

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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