The Red Symbol

A starving stranger collapses on Maurice Wynn’s landing—and from his rags slips a portrait of the woman Maurice hopes to marry, marked with a tiny red flower. What danger has followed Anne Pendennis to London?

Maurice is a London special correspondent, summoned at a moment’s notice to take an assignment in St. Petersburg. Before he can leave—or ask Anne to be his wife—a mysterious foreigner appears at his flat with a key to his neighbor’s rooms, old scars from the knout, and a warning Maurice can barely understand. The stranger knows Anne, fears the man upstairs, and carries a token that seems to bind them all to a secret. With his journey looming and Anne’s safety suddenly in question, Maurice must decide what to do first. What does the little red symbol mean?

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