The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer early reader There once was a man

There once was a man who loved his tidy home and who didn’t like animals

Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived

Both sides demand Diem’s allegiance—or her death

how dark the night

But a storm is coming

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer early reader There once was a manAs boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where theyd gone or how theyd survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. Meanwhile, Jeremy has become a famed missing persons investigator. With his