The Betrayal

R.L.STINE

SIMON PULSE

THE BEGINNING …

“You cannot do this!” Susannah Goode shrieked, fear choking her throat. “You cannot do this to us!”

The officers roughly dragged Susannah and her mother to the door. She heard surprised murmurs as they passed through the commons. Whispered questions.

The prison loomed ahead, a low clapboard building behind the meetinghouse.

“Why are you doing this to us?” Susannah cried, the words bursting from her throat. “Why are you dragging us from our home?”

Benjamin Fier stopped on the path. His voice was low and steady. His eyes locked onto Susannah’s.

“You two will burn before the week is out,” he said.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

First Simon Pulse edition August 2002

Copyright © 1993 by Parachute Press, Inc.

Originally published as an Archway Paperback in 1993

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ISBN-13: 978-0-671-86831-3

ISBN-10: 0-671-86831-4

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