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The devil you know
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Everyone in that county had already decided what Gilda Ann Prater was. Every one of them was wrong.
Crystal Carter is fifteen the summer she is sent away. She is a bishop's daughter, raised to know right from wrong and whose voice to obey, and after what happened in her father's house there is nowhere left to put her but with distant blood nobody nearer will claim.
That blood is Gilda Ann Prater - a woman whose name has been spoken like a warning Crystal's entire life. A story passed mouth to mouth so many times that nobody remembers who told it first, or whether one word of it was ever true.
What Crystal finds in that house is not what she was warned about. And the longer she stays, the more she has to ask a question that the people who raised her stopped asking a long time ago: who decided this woman was the devil, and what were they covering up when they did it?
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a Southern novel about reputation, church, family secrets, and the women who stand in the road between a child and the thing coming for her - and pay for it the rest of their lives.
Who gets to decide who the devil is?
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