Ryan Hendrickson scanned the crowd in Piedmont’s cafeteria, searching for his sons, Roger and Ethan.
For a moment, Ryan felt a fleeting sense of vertigo, as he remembered every mess hall he’d ever visited.
He remembered when he was in the military, then the agency and, most recently, when he was at Guantanamo Bay; the sickly smell [...]
His nephew had barely exited when there was a slight knock at William Chambers’ office door.
Chambers, who had walked over to the windows behind his desk to watch orange, yellow and red leaves skitter across the grounds outside, turned to see who had dared to infringe upon him. In fact, he was set to bawl [...]
Ch. 1
Piedmont Academy seemed as ageless and rustic as the elms and spruces it was nestled in, deep in the rolling hills of New Hampshire. Originally built in the early 1800’s, the design of the main building was in the fashion of the traditional Colonial homes of the New England region.
