Healing and New Beginnings
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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Genre
Romance
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Healing and New Beginnings

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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