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The Friend of the Family

By (author) Dean Koontz

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A girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. The human â€œodditiesâ€ in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museumâ€™s golden ticket. Until sheâ€™s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyoneâ€™s overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. Theyâ€™re vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that theyâ€™re also warnings. And that itâ€™s the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world. Alida will do anything to help those she now holds nearest and dearest. Empowered with a purpose to vanquish evil, she will not fail her family.

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