A Well Kept Secret
A WELL KEPT SECRET
Copyright: A. B. KING
Published on Kindle: May 2012
Revised October 2014
Publisher: The author
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Cover Design: By T A K Bridger
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Children’s books
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Genre - Children's Fantasy Adventure
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A young boy called John is sent on a perilous mission into the Land of the Faerie in order to save the people of Happy Valley, but there is an evil faerie who will stop at nothing to see him fail.
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Index
Chapter Three. Sunday Night to Monday Morning.
Chapter Four. Monday Lunchtime.
Chapter Five. Monday Afternoon and Evening.
Chapter Six. Monday Evening (continued).
Chapter Eight. Monday Night to Tuesday Morning.
Chapter Nine. Tuesday Morning and Afternoon.
Chapter Eleven. Tuesday Night.
Chapter Twelve. Wednesday Morning and Afternoon.
Chapter Thirteen. Wednesday Afternoon (continued).
Chapter Fourteen. Wednesday Evening.
Chapter Fifteen. Wednesday Night.
Chapter Sixteen. Thursday Morning (early).
Chapter Seventeen. Thursday Morning, (continued.)
Chapter Eighteen. Thursday Afternoon.
Chapter Nineteen. Thursday Evening (early).
Chapter Twenty. Thursday Evening, (late).
Chapter Twenty-One. Friday Morning.
Chapter Twenty-Two. Friday Afternoon.
Chapter Twenty-Three. Friday Evening.
Chapter Twenty-four. Friday Night and Saturday Morning.
Chapter Twenty Five. Saturday Afternoon.
Chapter Twenty Six. Saturday Evening.
Chapter Twenty-Seven. Saturday Night.