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|title=This Dark Road to Mercy

|author=Wiley Cash

|publisher=Doubleday

|date=January 2014

|website=http://www.wileycash.com

|summary=Failed baseball star Wade Chesterfield turns up to reclaim his daughters after their mother's death, but there's a history of crime and criminals on his tail. A well-crafted tale that will entertain, but not without its flaws.

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Easter Quilby is twelve years old. She and her sister Ruth are in a children's home. Not so long ago they woke up to find their mother slouched across the bed, dead. Drink and drugs and a hard, sad life had finally got to her, or maybe her body just gave up on it. Their father, Wade Chesterfield, sometime baseball star, had lit out on them three years earlier.