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    "description": "Half-buried in the muddy earth and surrounded by puddles of water lies the naked body of a beautiful young girl. Her pale skin looks like porcelain in the early morning light. Her fragile arms bent and crooked like a broken doll.\n\nWhen Detective Katie Scott is called to the discovery of a young girl buried on the grounds of a former children\u2019s home in Pine Valley, California, she\u2019s hopeful it\u2019s the end to a devastating cold case she\u2019s been working on. No one has seen Candace Harlan since she ran away from Elm Hill Manor five years ago. Her death will be a tragedy, but it will also bring peace to those who miss her most. But the girl in the ground is not Candace.\n\nThe victim is almost identical to Candace in every way, but fear grips Katie as she takes in the black ink that decorates the girl\u2019s back \u2013 a terrifying message tattooed on her skin after she drew her last breath.\n\nForcing down traumatic memories of losing her own parents, Katie is certain someone mistook this poor soul for Candace, and that this crumbling home for lost girls is at the heart of this terrible crime. She sets to work digging into the tragic history of the owners who lost so many children of their own and tracking down the last six residents and the staff who cared for them \u2013 but no one wants to talk, let alone remember.\n\nThe next day, as second girl\u2019s body is found down by the creek at high water, the same words etched into her skin. Katie\u2019s worst fear is confirmed: someone is picking off the last of the Elm Hill girls one by one. But what does the tattoo mean? And what monster would target these innocent girls who have already been through so much?",
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