Chapter 1
The never-ending card game ended. Cheating didn’t work for Mike. He just couldn’t hold Eddie off. Of course he couldn’t. They were twins, and people always wondered how much of a twin connection they had.
And they were right, in a way.
As the game wound down, Mike wondered what was taking their mother so long. And then there were the shots.
Marla Painter wasn’t the one to come out of the forest. Frances Booth was.
One of the last things Eddie said to his brother was, “I’ve got someone to be.”
And Mike Painter woke up with one extra tooth.