Stephen G. Black

A video file is found on a hard drive, containing footage of a man known as "Number 3". He is suspected of having a surgically inserted "death's head" coin in his body as he is monitored by security cameras to track physical and mental changes. The coin is rumored to be forged from WW II death's head rings, said to contain the souls of the soldiers that wore them. These coins were surgically inserted into "patients" to test the efficacy of the lore.

In a small Iowa town, Charlie "Champ" Hannen is the envy of town. A football scholarship is his ticket out of there and he is destined for greatness. But destiny takes him down another path when his biggest fan dies, his mother. With her, part of Champ also dies. The story picks up ten years later, upon his fathers passing, when Champ can't escape his past anymore. He must reconcile troubled relationships. When friends and family members return home for the funeral and the reading of the will, Champ must confront demons from his past and determine the future for himself and his fractured family.