The Prayer Chest
A Novel About Receiving All of Life's Riches
CHAPTER 1Easter Day, 1883It was a moment filled with hope, the moment Daniel was born.
“Not one Hutchinson man has made it to middle age,” Joseph whispered into the ear of his sleeping newborn son, “—yet.”
Many Hutchinsons married, some started families, all worked the farm, but none made it further than a few years past their twenty–first birthday.
Everyone in the small Long Island town whispered under their breath that it was God’s will. Some shuddered, saying it was a curse or the evil eye. Others insisted it was simply plain, old bad luck.
No explanation made sense because the Hutchinsons were the best kind of people you’d ever want to meet. There was nothing they would not do for you, and everyone in town had a story to tell about a good deed done for them by a Hutchinson. But for all their good deeds, in the end, the Hutchinsons could not keep their boys out of harm’s way.
On the day Daniel was born, all of his ancestors’ unfulfilled dreams shifted onto him. The accumulated ...
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