The Forged Note

Sidney Wyeth is sick, alone in his dim office, when a stranger enters to praise his book—and her voice suddenly feels like a memory. Then they recognize each other.

In an unnamed American port city, the struggling author and self-publisher is surrounded by unpaid bills, rain-dark windows and a mysterious illness. The visitor is Mildred Latham, whose unexpected return stirs a past neither seems ready to name. A year earlier, Sidney was in Cincinnati, where a chance encounter with a shrewd political operator drew him into the city’s election-season intrigues. Now love, ambition and the barriers of race and society press upon two people whose connection remains unresolved. As Sidney’s illness worsens, what lies behind their recognition—and what did their past leave unfinished?

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