A novel · thirty-one chapters
Under the
Sunflowers
a story of the Lakota, told by Exander Johns
A year after her little sister dies in a haunted-hayride accident, twelve-year-old Seal still carries her sister's doll everywhere she goes. When an earthquake tears open the earth beneath her family's South Dakota sunflower field, Seal and her neighbor Javin fall into a shadowed world of monsters, stolen memories, and spirits who have forgotten their own names. To find a way home, Seal must cross a land shaped by old wounds, trust the boy she never wanted as a friend, and confront a terrible question: how tightly can you hold on to someone you love before love itself becomes a cage?
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Book one of a trilogy — years pass between books.
Contents
Part One — A World Above
I Chapter One 8 min → II Chapter Two 10 min → III Chapter Three 10 min → IV Chapter Four 7 min → V Chapter Five 9 min → VI Chapter Six 5 min →Part Two — A World Below
VII Chapter Seven 12 min → VIII Chapter Eight 12 min → IX Chapter Nine 8 min → X Chapter Ten 9 min → XI Chapter Eleven 7 min → XII Chapter Twelve 9 min → XIII Chapter Thirteen 13 min → XIV Chapter Fourteen 10 min → XV Chapter Fifteen 8 min → XVI Chapter Sixteen 7 min → XVII Chapter Seventeen 8 min → XVIII Chapter Eighteen 13 min → XIX Chapter Nineteen 9 min → XX Chapter Twenty 10 min →Part Three — A World Between
XXI Chapter Twenty One 8 min → XXII Chapter Twenty Two 7 min → XXIII Chapter Twenty Three 17 min → XXIV Chapter Twenty Four 10 min → XXV Chapter Twenty Five 17 min → XXVI Chapter Twenty Six 4 min → XXVII Chapter Twenty Seven 8 min → XXVIII Chapter Twenty Eight 10 min → XXIX Chapter Twenty Nine 9 min → XXX Chapter Thirty 5 min → XXXI Chapter Thirty One 6 min → · Epilogue 3 min → · Afterword 1 min →A Novel Generosity
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