The Messengers

“You will read it—in your heart,” Polly Kirkland tells Ainsley as her ship pulls away for Egypt. He would much rather have it printed in a cablegram.

At Lone Lake Farm, a lonely Connecticut retreat six miles from the nearest railway, Ainsley has exiled himself from the city—and waits for Polly to decide whether she can love him. When she sails with friends for the Nile, she promises a secret sign that will tell him her feelings have changed. But how is a man supposed to recognize a message no one else can read, especially when every leap of a fish and croak of a bullfrog seems to kindle hope? For Ainsley, the distance between Connecticut and Egypt is nothing beside the distance between longing and certainty. What will he mistake for Polly’s signal?

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