{"product_id":"9781943189021","title":"The Center's Child","description":"JUST WHO . . . OR WHAT . . . IS CAMDEN ARCHER?\u003cp\u003eONLY REAL BOYS HAVE SOULS, and if Camden's not real . . . Jake Turner doesn't even want to think about that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamden Archer lives at the Center, along with seventeen other orphans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJake Turner is Cam's teacher at a Denver middle school. A storm throws them together, igniting Jake's suspicions that the boy isn't what he appears to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam grows an inch in one weekend, and his physical responses are too quick for Jake to follow-when the boy thinks Jake isn't watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe clincher for Jake? When Cam recovers miraculously from a deadly car accident that Jake was certain killed the boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven Cam's subsequent attendance at Sacred Heart doesn't entirely convince Jake the boy is heaven-bound. Who is there to hear his confession, if he's not real?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boy's abduction, and his ensuing pursuit by the Center's highly trained team of ex-military types, pull Jake into a life-or-death quest to save the boy he's come to care about as if he were his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the deadly conflict that follows, Jake has to come to terms with his doubts about Cam. He also has to answer the bigger question: What does it mean to have a soul?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt matters very much to Cam, especially if the boy doesn't survive long enough for Jake to save him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THREE SKILLET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063914774768,"sku":"9781943189021","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943189021_p0.jpg?v=1763758409","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943189021","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}