Gravestone
Authors: Travis Thrasher
Tags: #Fiction, #Mystery, #Fantasy, #young adult, #thriller, #Suspense, #teen, #Chris Buckley, #Solitary, #Jocelyn, #pastor, #High School, #forest, #Ted Dekker, #Twilight, #Bluebird, #tunnels, #Travis Thrasher
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This story is a work of fiction. All characters and events are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is coincidental.
2 Kings 6:16 in chapter 38 is taken from the King James Version of the Bible. (Public Domain.) The first passage in chapter 88, Isaiah 59:9–10, is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc™. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The second verse in chapter 88, 1 Corinthians 4:5, is taken from The New Testament in Modern English, copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960 J.B. Phillips and 1947, 1952, 1955, 1957 The Macmillian Company, New York. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The third verse in chapter 88, Daniel 10:19, is taken from the New Living Translation of the Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.
The poem segment in chapter 8 is from Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken,”
Mountain Interval
(1920). The first poem segment in chapter 39 is from Robert Frost, “A Ghost House,”
A Boy’s Will
(1915). The second poem segment in chapter 39 is from Robert Frost, “Now Close the Windows,”
A Boy’s Will
(1915). The third poem segment in chapter 39 is from Robert Frost, “The Flood,”
West-Running Brook
(1928). The fourth poem segment in chapter 39 is from Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken,”
Mountain Interval
(1920).
LCCN 2011923885
ISBN 978-1-4347-6419-5
eISBN 978-0-7814-0688-8
© 2011 Travis Thrasher
The Team: Don Pape, LB Norton, Sarah Schultz, Caitlyn York, Karen Athen
Cover Design: Amy Kiechlin Konyndyk
Cover Images: iStockphoto 3403969; 5000316, royalty free
First Edition 2011
For Ben Lippen
Contents
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