An Apple a Day

An Apple a Day by Eric Grogg opens with a simple, unsettling image: a shriveled apple and a letter from a dead man sitting on an attorney's desk late at night. Lawrence Greaves never expected his best friend Eddie Boevers to drag him into something this old, this dangerous, or this personal. Eddie died under circumstances that made no sense, but the letter he left behind tells a story that spans four thousand years, three continents, and the furthest edges of what a human being can become.

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