Lynn Thomas

“The old adage said that time healed all wounds, but Daniel didn’t believe that. Not anymore. Some wounds went too deep to ever heal properly. They kept reopening and leaking, draining the body of vitality, and bleeding all joy from the soul. After a time, they grew a layer of scar tissue, just like the scar on Daniel’s back, where Jason had removed his kidney after he’d been stabbed, but the pain remained, even if it was a phantom pain that lived only in the mind.”
― Irina Shapiro, Murder of a Hangman