Burgundy Stew

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>A hearty comforting dish of murder.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Brent Pineridge was never like other children. Even as a toddler something about him set him apart something his parents couldn't quite name but couldn't ignore.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>While other babies giggled at silly faces or reached for colorful toys Brent would fix his gaze on people studying them with an unsettling intensity. He rarely cried even when hurt or hungry his silence leaving those around him uneasy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Growing up in the chaos of his parents' volatile and abusive relationship only deepened the cracks in Brent's already unusual demeanor.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Their constant fights and emotional outbursts became the backdrop of his formative years shaping him in ways no one fully understood.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>In this gripping novella follow Brent's journey from high school to adulthood where he seems to have left the darkness of his childhood behind. But some wounds never fully heal has Brent truly moved on or is the past waiting to resurface?</span></p>