Chapter One: The Tree

A young man and his mother move halfway across the country to escape his abusive step-father. With his mother's new dream-job at a tech firm, their new life together is off to a great start...

But they soon learn that dreams are often too good to be true. Isolated in a new town with no one to trust, they must dig up the past to escape the far-reaching grasp of the hand that feeds them.

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