Hurricane Island

A flare blooms above the Thames, and a lonely East End doctor finds himself staring at the Sea Queen. Then the fog rolls in, swallowing the docks—and the way home.

Dr. Richard Phillimore has spent three bleak years tending the poor of London’s East End, stealing only a weekly glimpse of the life he longs for. On a November night, drawn to the river for air, he discovers a luxury steam-yacht at the docks and hears angry voices from its darkened cabin. When a sudden fog leaves him groping along the quay, the Sea Queen is no longer just a curious sight: it may be his first step beyond the drudgery he knows, and into dangers he cannot yet see. Who is aboard the yacht, and what will Phillimore find when the fog lifts?

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