![]() She sat up in bed, wide-eyed and panting. That night, Frankie's twin sister, Wendy, woke to a dream of bells. What his mother did not know was that the scars had memories. His mother said his face looked like a field of roses. The kids in town called him Slasher Face or Freak Show. After all these years, the scars were still puffed and angry and very, very red. No one knew who or what had given him those scars, or what happened to him when he was taken away at the age of eight and returned, marked and silent, two months later. ![]() They didn't notice the sound.įrankie laid his left hand over the knot of scars that curled over half his face. The rest of his family ate, wiped their faces, and excused themselves from the table. He sat at the dinner table, picking at his potatoes and pot roast, when a sound blew in from the wide expanse of the prairie. F RANKIE WAS THE FIRST to know most things-but since he hadn't spoken since he was eight years old, it didn't matter what he knew. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at Thank you for your support of the author's rights.į RANKIE WAS THE FIRST TO KNOW. ![]() Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property. ![]()
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