Dead Man’s Love

At four in the morning, Norton Hyde hangs from the roof of Penthouse Prison, gripping a rainwater pipe—and wondering whether a warder is waiting below. Then he drops into the grey dawn, a free man in convict’s clothes.

In Tom Gallon’s late-nineteenth-century tale, Hyde has escaped the prison walls only to find a world that may be another kind of prison. As he hides from early-rising country folk, hunger and discovery press close; memories of his childhood with his uncle, Zabdiel Blowfield, hint at the life that brought him here. Hyde is young, strong, and desperate for a fresh start—but freedom offers no disguise and no easy road. What waits for him beyond the first hiding place?

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