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Excerpt from Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

Barbed Wire Heart

A Thriller

by Tess Sharpe
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  • Mar 6, 2018, 416 pages
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  • Mar 2019, 416 pages
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"Good," Will says.

"What's going on? Where's my momma?"

"She's with my mom," Will says. "We're gonna wait until Carl leaves."

"Who's Carl?"

Excerpted from Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe. Copyright © 2018 by Tess Sharpe. Excerpted by permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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