The Warning
A strange pattern of death emerges in a small Spanish town in this novel of twisting suspense by international bestselling author Paul Pen.
I dont wish to frighten you, reads the anonymous note introverted and bullied eight-year-old Leo Cruz finds in his backpack. All the sender asks is that he avoid a certain spot on a certain day, or hell die. Leo has reason to be afraid. The warning hearkens back to nearly a decade agoto the same site, where a murder has become local folklore and a favorite campfire tale reinvented year after year by the kids of Arenas, a small Spanish town.
Leos parents initially suspect the lonely boys cruel classmates. The perfect joke to terrorize an impressionable victim. Unless, as they come to believe, its Leo himself who is the author of the warning.
Is Leo being lured to an unavoidable fate? Is someone taking bullying to a dangerous new level? Or is there something else at work in Arenas, a town with intersecting destinies and a century of secrets?
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