The Runaways

A blood-red sunset stains the snow outside Hazelwell, and Redmond Maynard asks his wolf-hound the question he has asked for two years: “Bersak, where’s Ulick?” The dog springs up, listening for the son who never came home.

On a bitter winter evening in the English countryside, the anniversary of Ulick’s departure settles over Hazelwell with the falling snow. Two years earlier, a furious quarrel drove father and son apart after Redmond accused Ulick of a terrible wrong; now the Squire is left with his remorse, his loyal hound, and no word of the young man he still longs to see. Irene Courtly arrives to keep him company, but even her warmth cannot quiet the old wound—or the mystery behind Ulick’s disappearance. What happened that night, and will the door ever open to Ulick again?

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