The Phantom Lover

On New Year’s Eve, Micky Mellowes hears a woman crying in the street—and finds a young woman carrying what he mistakes for a baby. It is a cat, and she says she is never going home again.

A canceled dinner has left Micky with a long, empty evening and little faith that anything can surprise him. Then he meets Esther Shepstone, tearful, alone, and determined to protect a cat from the unkindness it has suffered. Micky’s offer of supper draws him into a sorrow he cannot brush aside—and awakens a tenderness his carefully managed flirtation with Marie Deland has never touched. He thinks he is simply helping a stranger through one cold night. But what has brought Esther to the end of her tether, and where will his kindness lead?

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