Phantom Son swirls around main events culminating in an ending. As with every story, there are more layers added after the original telling that lend deeper color, new insight, and reflection upon the consequences of telling it. (In this case, a story that was never supposed to be told a all.) Here are some AfterWords providing a wider view that will expand over time. Think of it as the 'then what happened' part when you read a book you like and you don't stop at the end but read all the stuff that comes after that. You may even hope the author has written more books.

Epilogue: May 15, 2015 (5.15.15)

Fifty one years and three months later, a beautiful smart young woman graduated from high school. Her parents gave her a party at their dock on the lake where they live. Her younger redheaded brother was there along with her older redheaded sister and her cute boyfriend. Our graduate is a blonde more like her mother and her grandfather's youngest daughter. Her parents invited all of her friends and some of theirs. Her Kansas grandmother was there as were her uncles who are her father's brothers, and her mother's family from Nebraska. She wore a sweet Lily Pulitzer dress and her new pink pearls from another grandmother. It is that grandmother's tradition to give pearls for graduation to her granddaughters, which they appreciate. Someone else was there, too, which surprised and pleased everyone, especially the pearl giving grandmother whom she calls, Nana. Her Nana and this other person are her father's birthparents. She's always known that her redheaded daddy has two sets of parents, birth and adopted. She's known them all her life. So, it's a good thing when everyone, including both grandmothers -one is Grandma and the other is Nana - and her father's birthfather are all together. It gives everyone something to see and discuss and act normal about. It's not such a big deal now, but she noticed that her daddy looks happy and that there were two people there, besides his three kids, who look just like him. This isn't the first time they've all been in the same place, nor will it be the last.

It was a glorious Kansas evening with sparkling water, a Bald Eagle fly-by, a cloud and sky show, and a magic trick that brought people together who should have never known each other.