The Breaking Point

At choir practice, the tenor sounds as if he has swallowed a crab-apple—and Elizabeth Wheeler is dreaming of a life more beautiful than the one waiting beyond the parish house.

In leafy Haverly, Sunday hymns, family comforts, and town gossip share the same quiet streets. Elizabeth finds sanctuary in the choir, but her thoughts drift toward love—and toward Doctor Dick Livingstone, the man her friend Clare secretly adores. When Clare confides her hopeless passion, she also brings word that the town is talking about the doctor, and Elizabeth’s loyalty flares against the rumor. Beneath the calm of the Wheeler home, affection and suspicion are already stirring. What is Haverly saying about Doctor Livingstone—and what will Elizabeth discover when she can no longer keep the town’s talk at a distance?

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