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The Dead Mans Hand
Title: Dead Man’s Hand Act I: The Concrete Bottom (Chapters 1–7) Chapter 1: The Unwanted Son Fifteen-year-old Chris Dozier sits on the curb with a single trash bag of belongings. His parents, emotionally bankrupt and heavily neglectful,…
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…He looked at the promotion offer, the title of Regional Director shimmering with promise and peril. He had the job. He’d played the game, and he’d won. But the cost was a constant, gnawing fear, a perpetual state of vigilance. He had outrun the ghost of Chris Dozier, but now he was haunted by the specter of Marcus Thorne, a man whose life he had stolen, and whose past he was now desperately trying to bury. The promotion was a victory, yes, but it was a victory paid for in the currency of his soul, a victory that demanded he become an even more convincing liar. The price of his success was the deepening of his deception, a step further into the shadows he’d so desperately tried to escape.