Romance · fiction
The Shawl Hook by the Door
Charlene Stewart had learned that cruelty rarely shouted. Most of the time, it whispered. It moved from pew to pew on Sunday mornings, slipped beneath doors at boarding houses, traveled between women leaning over washbasins, and waited behind polite smiles at the mercantile counter. By the time Charlene entered Higgins Mercantile that cold...
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