Propriety & Pretense

Henry Palmer has spent the last two years working in an office in Chicago, having moved down from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to meet the father he’d never known. Henry, raised in the spectacular northern mountains, hated the city. He knew his life had gotten stale. He longed for the freedom of the forest and daydreamed of returning. Aggie Kincaid, an orphan living on the streets of town with her older cousin, seemed to exist from one disaster to another. They lived hand-to-mouth as pickpockets and Aggie knew her life had gotten out of control. When at Christmas in 1903 Henry and Aggie collided on the street, the incident set into motion a series of precarious clandestine escapades in their lives, bonding them in unexpected friendship. Henry decides to go back north and invites Aggie to go with him, but she elects to remain. Then the very day he is due to sail Aggie is plunged into real catastrophe and Henry becomes her only hope.