Chapter 1

Chapter 1

THE BLACK FOREST: In Which We Meet Ultimate Evil... 

A pretty postcard.  The dark trees stand still to put on robes, arms raised like obedient children.  Their green sleeves slowly whiten.  Snow settles over the Black Forest.  Here’s a stone cottage, hidden from any traveler.  In its derelict, frost-clumped front garden, a weathered wooden statue of a boy greets visitors....

 

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