Cover of The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1)

The Dark Divine

Bree Despain

The Dark Divine #1

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Her childhood friend returns with a dark secret — and Grace's small-town world will never be the same.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend - practically a brother - returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.

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