The Lost Hunter

At sunrise, Holden stretches his arms toward a crimson sky, waiting for heaven to open. Then a gunshot shatters the island’s silence—and a stranger falls bleeding on the shore.

On a quiet island in the river Severn, in an autumn year marked only as 18—, Holden lives alone in a humble cabin, keeping watch for the sign he believes must come. The gaunt recluse’s stillness vanishes when he sees a young man shot on the bank: he rows across, carries the stranger to safety, and tends his wounds with a skill that hints at hard experience. But the wounded youth is a stranger, the gun lies abandoned, and Holden’s refuge may not keep danger at bay. Who fired the shot, and what has this unexpected arrival brought to the island?

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