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<p><strong>A lone teenager. A shocking secret.</strong></p><p>During a raging snowstorm, a deputy rescues a teenager stumbling along the side of a highway. Battered and starving, the boy reveals only his name—<em>Jaxon with an X.</em></p><p>Ten years earlier, six-year-old Jaxon Lathan disappeared from a small North Carolina mountain town. The sheriff thought he had solved the crime, but the boy's return leads to a house of secrets, a mass grave, and the horror of missed opportunities. As the victims are identified one-by-one, the story of what really happened comes to light.</p><p>While the police piece together the crimes, Jaxon's family struggles to rebuild their relationship with their long-lost son, now a barely recognizable shadow recovering in a hospital bed. His return rekindles the guilt each of them carries about the day he disappeared.</p><p>Jaxon craves the warmth and love of the...