sentences:  Matthew found out about Raven's Gate, and his true destiny, when Tom Burgess, a farmer in the Yorkshire town of Greater Malling, was murdered and had smeared the letters in green paint across the wooden door in the bedroom of the farmhouse he lived in.After a botched warehouse theft which culminated in the stabbing of a security guard, Matt is placed on the Leaf project(Liberty and Education Achieved through Fostering).He is placed in the care of Jayne Deverill, an old lady living in Lesser Malling, a village in Yorkshire.