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    The Wicker King
    The Wicker King
    The Wicker King
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Wicker King

    Written by K. Ancrum

    Narrated by Charlie Thurston

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    About this audiobook

    Jack once saved August's life . . . now can August save him?

    August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team-but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents' unreliable behavior, August decides to help Jack the way he always has-on his own. He accepts the visions as reality, even when Jack leads them on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy.

    August and Jack alienate everyone around them as they struggle with their sanity, free falling into the surreal fantasy world that feels made for them. In the end, each one must choose his own truth.

    Written in vivid micro-fiction with a stream-of-consciousness feel and multimedia elements, K. Ancrum's The Wicker King touches on themes of mental health and explores a codependent relationship fraught with tension, madness and love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 26, 2021
    ISBN9781705281581
    The Wicker King
    Author

    K. Ancrum

    K. Ancrum is the author of award-winning thrillers, notably The Wicker King and most recently Lethal Lit: Murder of Crows. K. is a Chicago native passionate about diversity and representation in young adult fiction. She currently writes most of her work in the lush gardens of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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