The Distant Promise
Chapter One Vernon Layton knew the weight of a reverse mortgage better than the weight of a gun, knowing that by word count, he had already lost the house to the bank, leaving him only the air in the lungs and the cold stone under his boots. He stood at the gate of the retraining center, a stone keep that squatted on the ridge above Melbourne’s terraces, watching his daughter Elara walk away...
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