Troubled Travels
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Jacob Birch is a skeptical man, and is not prone to believing something he can't see. It comes as no surprise that when tales of "shadowmen" who steal people's senses and haunt the land between towns arise, Jacob pays them no heed. He makes a startling discovery and his whole world is changed forever after...
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