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Designed by Davina Mock-Maniscalco

Map by Jerry Clifford Hite

Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Background photograph by Adam Jones/Getty Images

Photograph of girl © Galit Seligmann/Alamy

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hite, Ann.

The storycatcher / Ann Hite.—First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

pages cm

1. Young women—Georgia—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Ghost stories. 4. Mystery fiction. I. Title.

PS3608.I845S76 2013

813’.6—dc23

2012050508

ISBN 978-1-4516-9227-3

ISBN 978-1-4516-9231-0 (ebook)

Contents

Prologue: Dayclean

Ada Lee Tine

Part One: Hailstorm

Chapter 1: Shelly Parker

Chapter 2: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 3: Armetta Lolly

Chapter 4: Faith Dobbins

Chapter 5: Ada Lee Tine

Part Two: The Bottle Tree

Chapter 6: Shelly Parker

Chapter 7: Faith Dobbins

Part Three: Tangled Truths

Chapter 8: Faith Dobbins

Chapter 9: Arleen Brown

Chapter 10: Shelly Parker

Chapter 11: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 12: Arleen Brown

Chapter 13: Armetta Lolly

Part Four: Heat Lightning

Chapter 14: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 15: Arleen Brown

Chapter 16: Shelly Parker

Part Five: Fiery Sign

Chapter 17: Faith Dobbins

Part Six: Finders Keepers

Chapter 18: Ada Lee Tine

Chapter 19: Shelly Parker

Chapter 20: Armetta

Chapter 21: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 22: Ada Lee Tine

Chapter 23: Arleen Brown

Part Seven: Death Quilt

Chapter 24: Shelly Parker

Chapter 25: Arleen Brown

Chapter 26: Armetta Lolly

Chapter 27: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 28: Ada Lee Tine

Part Eight: Memory Box

Chapter 29: Shelly Parker

Part Nine: The Grim Reaper

Chapter 30: Shelly Parker

Chapter 31: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 32: Arleen Brown

Chapter 33: Ada Lee Tine

Chapter 34: Shelly Parker

Chapter 35: Armetta Lolly

Part Ten: Ebb Tide

Chapter 36: Shelly Parker

Chapter 37: Maude Tuggle

Chapter 38: Arleen Brown

Chapter 39: Armetta Lolly

Chapter 40: Ada Lee Tine

Chapter 41: Shelly Parker

Epilogue: Sap Moon

Shelly Parker

Acknowledgments

Readers Group Guide

Introduction

Book Club Discussion Questions

Enhance Your Book Club

About Ann Hite

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