" For all Nate's strengths, all his fights in the school yard, all the ways he proved himself to be the stronger of the two brothers, Nate had never been able to stand against their father. A childhood of being abused had done irreversible damage. His powerful, rash, wild brother crumpled like paper before their father's wrath. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Promise of Return (The Outlands Pentalogy #3)