Honor Edgeworth

Outside, the night is full of hungry children and cold, wet streets—or so the narrator insists. Inside, Henry Rayne lounges by a roaring fire, until the letters at his elbow begin to disturb his peaceful evening.

In late-19th-century Ottawa, Henry is a comfortable bachelor with a generous heart, a long-guarded grief, and a household enlivened by the irrepressible Mrs. Potts. Among the letters is a tale of a stranger who risked a wound to defend Henry’s good name—and news that will draw him back into the life of his old friend’s family. As duty presses against the quiet he has chosen, the past he thought settled may no longer stay buried. What will Henry find waiting beyond the seal of the next letter?

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