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Authors: Janet Kellough

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The Burying Ground

Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers' Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed.

The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned to preaching on the Yonge Street Circuit. The graveyard's secrets lead Lewis and his son Luke into the hidden heart of 1851 Toronto where they discover a trail of corruption and blackmail tied to an old sexual scandal and a dangerous enemy intent on vengeance.

Copyright

Copyright © Janet Kellough, 2016

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All characters in this work are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Editor: Allison Hirst

Design: Laura Boyle

Cover Design: Courtney Horner

Ebook Design: Carmen Giraudy

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Kellough, Janet

Wishful seeing / Janet Kellough.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-3537-8 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3538-5 (pdf).--
ISBN 978-1-4597-3539-2 (epub)

I. Title.

PS8621.E558W57 2016 C813'.6 C2015-908174-2-
C2015-908175-0

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