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First edition: February 2022

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021947558

ISBNs: 9781538754634 (hardcover), 9781538754658 (ebook), 9781538723364 (international edition)

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Dedication

For my dad and mom, for being my first readers and my biggest supporters—but mostly for making me read two books a week when I was a kid before I was allowed to watch TV.

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Prologue

Prologue

And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea…

The sensation was sudden and unexpected, so wild and intense and ferocious that Robert “Bobby” Donati actually gasped out loud. He could feel—really feel—the wooden deck rising up beneath his feet as the massive waves crashed against the stern of the reeling boat. He could see the dark, violent storm clouds billowing over the shattered mast, as the bow careened toward the jagged rocks that would surely kill them all. He could hear the screams of the huddled passengers behind him—most caught up in mindless panic, some still holding oars or reaching up to desperately try to fix the mainsail—frantically trying to do something, anything, save for one man, in the center of the deck, who peered out at the storm with a calm patience that could only be described as Christ-like, because, well—and then Bobby’s own voice tore him out of the moment, his thick Boston accent sounding vaguely tinny in his ears.

“Get over here and help me get this off the wall.”