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Contents ( 53)
  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. Map
  4. Contents
  5. July 6, 1978
  6. 11:45 p.m.
  7. 1
  8. July 7, 1978
  9. 7:30 a.m.
  10. 2
  11. July 7, 1978
  12. 7:30 a.m.
  13. 3
  14. July 7, 1978
  15. 8:05 a.m.
  16. 4
  17. 5
  18. 6
  19. July 11, 1978
  20. 6:00 p.m.
  21. 7
  22. 8
  23. 9
  24. July 11, 1978
  25. 9:30 p.m.
  26. 10
  27. 11
  28. 12
  29. 13
  30. 14
  31. 15
  32. 16
  33. 17
  34. 18
  35. 19
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  40. 24
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  43. 27
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  45. 29
  46. 30
  47. Author’s Note
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. About the Author
  50. Books by Maureen Johnson
  51. Back Ad
  52. Copyright
  53. About the Publisher

We left our apartment just once during the summer. My friend Cassandra Clare has a writing barn, and she offered it to us as a refuge from the city. It was the first time we had spent time outdoors that year. Because of her, I was able to remember the feeling of being out in the woods, jumping into a lake, letting the sun settle on my skin. I counted dragonflies. I drank my morning coffee outside, under the trees, with my dog, Dexy. And with our friends Holly Black and Kelly Link, I got through some of the blocks I had on the book. That week of fresh air carried me the rest of the year. To them—to all my friends—thank you.

And last, but never least, thank you to my husband, here known only as Oscar. He knows what he’s done. Oh, he knows.

About the Author

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MAUREEN JOHNSON is the bestselling author of several novels, including the Truly Devious trilogy, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, the Suite Scarlett series, and the Shades of London series. She has also written collaborative works such as Let It Snow with John Green and Lauren Myracle and The Bane Chronicles with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan. Maureen lives in New York and on Twitter @maureenjohnson or at www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com.

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The Shades of London series

The Suite Scarlett series

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The Key to the Golden Firebird

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13 Little Blue Envelopes

The Last Little Blue Envelope

Truly Devious

The Vanishing Stair

The Hand on the Wall

The Box in the Woods

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Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

THE BOX IN THE WOODS. Copyright © 2021 by HarperCollins Publishers. Map art by Charlotte Tegen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021934356

Digital Edition JUNE 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-303262-0

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-303260-6 — ISBN 978-0-06-308213-7 (intl ed)

2122232425PC/LSCH10987654321

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