title: The Shores of the Dead Book 3: The Final Stand (Volume 3)
author:  Josh Hilden 
description: Josh Hilden is a native Michigander who has lived in Southern Ohio for sixteen years. Josh has been married to his wife Karen since 1996 and the couple has six children together. Josh is a Freelance Role Playing Game author and a prolific writer of short and long form fiction. Josh can be reached through his website at www.joshhilden.com.
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  Contents
  
  
  [About the Book](aboutthebook.html)
  
  
  [About the Author](about_author.html)
  
  
  [Author’s Note](authornote.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](title.html)
  
  
  [Yesterday](chapter_001.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](chapter_001.html#pg1)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](chapter_002.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](chapter_003.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](chapter_004.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](chapter_005.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](chapter_006.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](chapter_007.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](chapter_008.html)
  
  
  [Copyright](copyright.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # **Dead Man’s Gift  
  1: Yesterday**
  
  
  ## **Simon Kernick**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### **About the Book**
  
  
  **A THRILLER IN THREE PARTS**
  
  
  
  
  
  **The FIRST direct to digital short-story in a race-against-time three-part
  adventure from the bestselling author of Relentless, Siege and Ultimatum,
  Simon Kernick.**
  
  
  
  
  
  MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven year old son has been abducted by
  a ruthless gang of kidnappers. All they have left behind is the brutally
  murdered bod