The letter that changed Elias Thorne’s life arrived on a Tuesday, tucked between a credit card offer and a flyer for a local pizzeria. It was typed on thick, cream-coloured stationery that felt anachronistically heavy in his hands. The postmark was from a town he’d never heard of: Blackwood Hollow, West Virginia. The sender was a law firm, informing him that his great-uncle, Alistair Thorne, had passed away and named Elias as the sole heir to his estate….
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