Topher Lydon

#Justice4Jamie!

Thank you If you liked the story, hit the recommend button (Black medal button beside where you like the chapter) Leave a review Every bit helps me out tremendously. Thank you for reading how Andrew became Andrew, and finally answer the lost unanswered question of what happened to Denton Jensen.

And so, Andrew has entered the game.

Chapter 18: The Sovereign of the Self The Thursday night air in Toronto didn't smell like ozone and burnt magnesium. It smelled of rain on hot pavement, roasting coffee from the 24-hour shop on the corner, and the low-frequency hum of a million lives being lived simultaneously, a vast, indifferent energy that was both overwhelming and liberating. In Will Carter’s narrow, three-story townhouse in the Scarborough Bluffs, the atmosphere was thick with a different kind of tension—not the

I used to date a Henry, lovely guy just... intensity was up at 11. Nothing wrong with him at all, just could be a lot to take at times. I didn't mind, I found it charming. My friends were understanding even if they nicknamed him "The short annoying Frenchman" I kinda had a type for a long time, the more they drove my friends nuts, the more I liked 'em. Though I did have this one friend that LOVED dating the guys I dated, right after I broke up with them, so he was a hypocrite Ahh Danny (my Henry) we still chat, delightful guy filled with bounce!

Cam is a delight, and Henry's just... a puppy Full of bounce Henry's just happy SOMEONE likes him.

A short "Winter"-lude showing that life goes on, even in the face of difficulties Good morning all Steve's ancestor and Cam, Go Henry!

Chapter 5.5: The Courting of Bobby Grady and Henry Hickey **Merrickville, Ontario. Late February, 1885.** The afternoon sun, thin and pale as watered milk, had barely warmed the frozen streets when Timmy McCormick made his decision. He stood outside Grady's Gunworks & Smithy, his breath clouding in the cold air, watching Bobby through the frost-rimed window. Bobby was at his workbench, sleeves rolled up despite the chill, forearms streaked with grease as he filed the burrs o

You have no idea how true that statement is. Alistair Merrick is an eldritch horror Abject evil. I won't call him a monster, no, he births them.

Your wish was my command.

Wow, thank you for reading... honestly thank you. I am so happy with how well received The Lost and the Damned has been. It was such a different book to write, dealing with that level of trauma and psychological horror And writing a monster like Tarquin Merrick was... very different than anything else I have ever written. Again, thank you for reading.

that was the vibe I was going for. I was actually experimenting with a four one chapter structure, and a one more chapter cliff hanger style. It worked rather well, and I ended up writing a second in Coyote vs the Water Wolf.

You are missing out with Buckshot, it's a treat of a little book. Summary Elias is assigned to Silver Creek a dying town, by the Pinkerton agency. Meets Theo, a self taught academic and trail guide/stable hand with one hell of a horse. Jack - otherwise known as THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF: HORSE They save the town, fight corruption, pistol duel at night in the town square. Good guys win, bad guys loose The town abandons Denver and moves, enmasse, to Canada for better opportunities. This is three years later.

The next book will introduce you to Kellerman who is Andrew's Law Principal (A senior lawyer that mentors a new lawyer) and teaches Andrew that the law has a place in Andrew's world. Between Kellerman and Tanaka we start to see the Andrew we know take shape. He marries the worlds together well. I don't focus much on Will's journey, we know that already. Robert Avery and Avery-Woods.

Wear a big ol' trapper coat and ride Brunhilde.

Theo really needed that scene. It was one of the earlier ones for this chapter written. I wanted to show that Theo could heal from the violation of his home, like he could from what Cobb did to him in the Brothel. The endurance of his father's book being a metaphor for Theo himself. Marked, but can be made whole again because no matter what, he endures.

CARTER'S ASSET Andrew Highmore has one job: infiltrate Toronto's most powerful law firm and bring down the man who owns it. His only value? His ex—Will Carter, a rising HR director whose new relationship makes him the perfect pawn. But when a troubled teenager's desperate search for healing leads him into the arms of a conversion therapy predator, Andrew's mission collides with the people he loves most. Now he must choose: protect Will from a conspiracy that could destroy him, or save a boy who's already been broken once. Some instruments are made to be used. Others become weapons. A gripping thriller about love, loyalty, and the price of becoming what you need to be.

For Uncle Jamie. Now we know why he was so accepting of Steve. It was hard earned, and fought for.

Chapter 17: The Jurisprudence of Action Gary 'Brick' MacReady hadn't been right since Denton vanished. Everyone noticed. The way he'd show up at the Tim Hortons at odd hours, staring at nothing. The way his hand shook when he lifted his coffee. The way he'd flinch at the sound of a truck backfiring, then get *angry* about flinching, his face going that particular shade of purple that meant someone was going to pay. The Cross was crumbling. Donny was gone—disappeared, eve

Historically, the Change of Name thing was the closest thing we could get to Gay Marriage for a very long time. That is until a Baptist Trained Minister: Reverend Brent Hawkes of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto is recognized for officiating Canada's (and the world's) first legal same-sex marriages. Key details regarding this milestone: Date: January 14, 2001. Couples: Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, and Anne and Elaine Vautour. Method: Hawkes utilized a legal loophole by publishing the "banns of marriage" at his church, rather than using a government-issued license. Legal Standing: Although the Ontario registrar initially refused to accept the records, the Ontario Court of Appeal later recognized these unions as legally valid in June 2003, making them the first same-sex marriages in Canada. While other, earlier ceremonies (such as in 1974 in Winnipeg) occurred, Hawkes' 2001 ceremonies were the first to be legally recognized in Canada. It's the reason I write Pastor Jensen the way that I do in the Merrickville books. He is heavily inspired by Hawkes.

ahh Bobby Grady, Adore that character. Just alight when he jumps on the page in that battered Bowler hat of his. Our little Deputy determined and loyal.

Considering all things about to come down, they would have gotten a bargain.

The Remington Lee 1885 Naval Pattern Rifle was a technological leap, even over the Hotchkiss. Even though the bolt-action, detachable-box-magazine rifles designed by James Paris Lee saw only a modicum of use by the United States military, Lee’s design found much favor in Great Britain. A modified and refined version of Lee’s basic bolt-action, detachable-box-magazine rifle became perhaps the most venerable rifle in Great Britain’s history, the Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield. The SMLE can be directly traced back to the Remington-Lee rifles that saw action on the American Western frontier and in the racks of late 19th-century U.S. Navy warships. James P. Lee’s design was, indeed, “ahead of its time.” The Lee-Enfield saw action through WW1 and WW2, and this was it's spiritual prototype. You thought Theo was lethal before... With his scope and his steady hands. Yep. I joke, but of the two, Theo is far more lethal than Elias is.

By the way, the amount that Theo demanded: $75,000 in 1885 Canadian currency is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately $2.5 million CAD today,