The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

The commission arrived on a Tuesday, sealed in wax that looked suspiciously like dried blood, offering Elias Thorne the modest sum required to secure his mother’s final years in the care home at St. Jude’s, a crumbling monastery perched on the jagged cliffs of the Scottish Highlands where the wind did not blow so much as scream. Elias, an archivist of forty-two whose life had narrowed to the...

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