Doves Will Peck

When Anne sabotages a scheme to entrap the renegade strikers, she at last gains the power to challenge the scabs' oppression at the hands of the union, mill, and militia. But as this precarious balance slowly totters and falls, Leonhard resorts to what were once unthinkable betrayals of even the closest of his allies. The repercussions ripple all through the mill and city, until they drive the outcast Slaide to an act of lonesome desperation. It may finally bring about a long-overdue end to the crisis, but at a cost far greater than any of them ever imagined.