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Empty Smiles

Small Spaces Quartet Book 4
Pages
205
Published
2022
Language
English

Synopsis

Three months after Ollie vanished making a deal with the mysterious smiling man, her friends Coco, Brian, and Phil fear she's lost forever. A terrified boy's message from a traveling carnival reveals the smiling man's game has begun, and they must play to save Ollie. Trapped in a world behind the mist, Ollie uncovers the carnival's dark secrets, desperate to guide her friends. With time running out, they risk everything in a dangerous game where the smiling man plays for keeps, and losing means game over for everyone.

About the author

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Katherine Arden

Katherine Arden Burdine (born 1987 in Austin, Texas) is an American novelist. She is best known for the Winternight trilogy, fantasy novels set in medieval Russia that began with The Bear and the Nightingale and drew Hugo and Locus nominations, and for the Small Spaces series of middle-grade horror novels, whose first book won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020. She studied French and Russian literature at Middlebury College, spent a year living in Moscow, later worked in Hawaii and taug...

Characters

OllieProtagonist
Ms. CocoProtagonist
BrianProtagonist
PhilProtagonist
The Smiling ManAntagonist
All characters in Empty Smiles