Mark Musick shook and rattled Pike County in August with his claim that Verner Nicely, the reclusive husband of native Eva McLelland, was actually Howard Hughes – the Howard Hughes.

Musick backed his claim with detailed “proof” in the book, “Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes,” written by Douglas Wellman. Musick and Wellman worked together to gather research to substantiate the information provided to Musick by McLelland after her husband’s death in 2002.

McLelland’s claim was that Hughes had assumed the identity of Verner Nicely, who disappeared while working with the CIA in Panama in the late 1960s. Nicely and McLelland married in the Canal Zone in 1970.

McLelland further claimed that the longhaired, bearded, emaciated, reclusive “Howard Hughes” who died in 1976 was a stand-in who was either mentallybuild a force capable of challenging Charis, and in the meantime to attack the Kingdom in any way possible. They order the brutal public execution of the previous Archbishop of Charis, Erayk Dynnys, but Dynnys bravely denounces them before his death. They also declare that Cayleb and Staynair are apostates and enemies of God, which creates domestic problems for Cayleb. Merlin barely manages to prevent the assassination of Staynair at the hands of Charisian church loyalists, who also destroy the Royal College. The Group of Four urge all of the nations loyal to the Church to close their ports to Charisian shipping in an attempt to attack Charis via economic means. In Ferayd, Kingdom of Delferahk, the Church's Office of Inquisition is resisted by Charisian merchants as it