CHAPTER 1: The Echo in the Crossroads Diner The smell of burnt coffee and frying bacon is the scent of Saturday dawn at…
PART 1: THE 620-MILE OBLIGATION Chapter 1: The Weight of a Broken Promise The phone call was a thunderbolt, but the…
Part I: The Humiliation and the Sentinel’s Gaze Chapter 1: The Parade of the Loved The 3:00 PM bell at Oak…
🏍️ PART 1: The Silence Before the Storm Chapter 1: The Wrong Place for the Wrong Men The air in Marquee…
Chapter 1: The Silence of the Solitary Grave The rain had stopped only moments ago, a sudden, merciful pause in the relentless…
Chapter 1: The White Silence The snow was falling so thick that evening that the street lights seemed to glow with halos…
Chapter 1: The Thunder at St. Mary’s The automatic glass doors of St. Mary’s Hospital, in the relentless heart of an Arizona…
Chapter 1: The Code of the Road The air at 2:17 a.m. tasted like burnt rubber, stale coffee, and the metallic chill…
Chapter 1: The Phantom and the Trailer Park I am Arthur Vance. I build skyscrapers. I design the future, deal in steel,…