title: The Benders: Keepers of the Devil's Inn
author: Fern M. Wood
description: Fern Morrow Wood spent her childhood in and around her father's country store in Strauss, Kansas. She started teaching in rural schools at the age of seventeen. Her teaching career continued in the fourth grade classroom in Cherryvale, Kansas, where she presided over the corner room for twenty-six years. Her insights into teaching and managing the elementary classroom have recently been published as Born To Teach. The author has published another historical novel, Pop and Bud, which is the story of her father as a country storekeeper through the Depression years. She has edited the ten-year history of the Southwest Central Region of the American Association of University Women and an anthology, Memories of a Country School, written by members of the Kansas Authors Club.
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   The Devil Inside 
   
   © 2006 BY Ali Vali. All Rights Reserved. 
   
   
   ISBN 10: 1-933110-30-9E 
   
   
   This electronic book is published by 
   
   Bold Strokes Books, Inc., 
   
   New York, USA 
   
   
   First Printing Bold Strokes Books 2006 
   
   
   This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents 
  are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. 
  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business 
  establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 
   
   
   This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form 
  without permission. 
   
  
   
   Credits 
   
   Editors: Shelley Thrasher and Stacia Seaman 
   
   Production Design: Stacia Seaman 
   
   Cover Design By Sheri (graphicartist2020@hotmail.com) 
   
   
   
   
   
   Acknowledgements 
   
   
   Thank you to Radclyffe for believing in my writing and for her 
  input into this story. I could have found no better home than Bold 
  Strokes Books and no better family to help me grow as a writer. 