{"product_id":"the-desolations-of-devils-acre-isbn-9780735231559","title":"The Desolations of Devil's Acre","description":"\u003cb\u003eInstant #1 bestseller!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacob and his friends will face deadly enemies and race through history’s most dangerous loops in this thrilling page-turner. \u003c\/i\u003eThe Desolations of Devil's Acre \u003ci\u003eis the newest installment, and final adventure, in the beloved Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.\u003cbr\u003e             Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began—his grandfather’s house. Jacob doesn’t know how they escaped from V’s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned.\u003cbr\u003e             After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil’s Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations—weather fronts of ash and blood and bone—a terrible portent of Caul’s amassing army.\u003cbr\u003e             Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. 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A single photon of failing light circling a hungry void.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It won’t be long now.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I’ve lost my soul, I’m afraid, but I can’t remember how. All I can recall are slow, churning cracks of thunder, and within them the syllables of my name, whatever it used to be, drawn out until unrecognizable. That and the dark are all there is, for a long time, until another sound joins the thunder: wind. Then rain, too. There is wind, and thunder, and rain, and falling.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Something is coming into being, one sensation at a time. I am rising from the trench, escaping the void. My single photon becomes a flashing cluster.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I feel something rough against my face. I hear the creaking of ropes. The flap of something caught in the wind. Perhaps I am on a boat. Trapped in the lightless belly of some storm-tossed ship.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e One eye blinks open. Forms thrash dimly above me. 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