The Cleric's Vault

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Thank you to the librarians at Dalton High School for all your support and friendship through the years. A special thank you goes out to my editors: Madonna Fajardo Kemp, Susie McClarty, and Billie Moehn. I’m also extremely grateful for my awesome design consultant, Lori Wilson, for helping create the cover of the book.

“Padre, donde esta la chiave?”

The young priest rushed his words in Spanish, standing over a bed of plain white linens. An awkward look of desperation covered his face. He’d been trying to comfort the older man, who lay there dying, with words from standard prayers and parts of scripture. His efforts though, were clearly halfhearted, a way of going through the motions.

The question about the location of the key betrayed why he was really there.

A pale half-moon seeped through the few clouds that dotted the night sky and cast an eerie glow into the small dormitory. The air was cool and somewhat soothing.

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