Chapter 20: Formidable

As the words "Kill them!" echoed through the ancestral hall, several family members' faces grew tense. For outsiders, the phrase might seem standard, but coming from Damon Cabell, it signaled an order that was anything but ordinary. He intended to hang the body as a warning at Jatonville's Heaven's Gate—a public display of retribution reserved for only the most serious offenders, last done over a hundred years ago when the Cabell family didn't yet rule Jatonville. Someone dared to kill a member...