Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

Author:Ben Guterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

CHAPTER 21

THE BOOKSELLER’S CARD

CARE

CORE

CORN

TORN

TURN

What they found in the den was a snow globe—the size of a soccer ball, with glass thick enough to withstand a hammer’s blow—lying on the carpeted floor. Its wooden stand sat empty on the desk above.

“How in the name of Lambert Falls did that happen?” Norbridge exclaimed. He knelt and picked up the globe to examine it. A blizzard of snowflakes within swirled around a slate-gray mansion set beside a cluster of fir trees.

Norbridge shifted the globe back and forth, studying it for cracks. “That couldn’t have just rolled to the ground by itself,” he said, setting the globe back on its stand. “Was there an earthquake? Did any of you feel anything? A temblor or a trembler? Timber? Temper? The Templars? Something?”

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