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Chapter One

Elon Green was back from the dead.

At least, that was what the local newspaper headlines implied: “Deceased boy lives again.”

It was a miracle by anyone’s account. Elon Green, youngest son of the local, hugely wealthy, Green family, had disappeared twelve years ago at the age of five. Everyone had assumed the worst and given up hope. All except for Mary Green, Elon’s mother. She’d never given up faith that one day her son would return to the fold.

And it seemed he had.