Barnaby

A train roars through the black wilderness, and a stranded acting troupe scrambles to escape—while, behind a rattling door, one sick girl is left behind. Then a woman in a faded crimson cloak presses a ring into her hand and offers her another life.

Paradise is a ruined gold town, cut off from help and swallowed by night. The penniless M’Kune Tragedy Company has finally earned its fare out—but the ailing girl cannot go with them. A fellow actress, bound for England and pursued by a lawyer, proposes an audacious exchange: the girl can take her place as the widow of John Barnabas Hill. Frightened and friendless, she must choose between remaining stranded and stepping into a stranger’s name. What awaits the woman who answers to it?

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