Raven has been viciously bashed by his father ever since he can remember. Every day is fresh hell, until he is given a chance to change it all. He is confronted by a voice which promises a way of getting revenge for his suffering. Armed with a pocketknife and insatiable blood lust, this rage-filled teenager has to choose to either kill or be killed, and Raven has already chosen not to die...A mother awaits her son's visit in the nineteenth century before his life - and her life - will change forever. A short story of a mother's love and belief in her son's future greatness, you will walk away smiling, learning about a little known woman in American history that enabled a nation's greatest change with her belief in literacy and love of a son... who wasn't even her real child.