Mated from the Morgue

Forty-two hours without food, Manus O’Hara is trying to laugh off his empty pockets when a stray dog presses its hungry sides against his leg. He has just one silver coin—and chooses to share it.

Paris, spring 1866: in the bohemian Latin Quarter, damp skies and colder fortunes make a bare garret a hard place for a proud young Irishman to call home. O’Hara is broke, hungry, and dodging the landlady’s sharp eye; near the grim Morgue, he finds a companion as forlorn as himself and names him Pat. Their small kindness brings warmth to a day overshadowed by the city’s unclaimed dead, but a crust of bread cannot settle what desperate men may face next. Where will O’Hara and Pat find their next meal—and what waits for them at the Morgue?

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