The need was great upon him to touch her, to comfort her, to do anything to stop the wretched wailing. He fingered the short braid at the end of his beard. The thin vellum scroll crinkled in his gloved hand. The draft-churned fire cast its moving light on the floor and across their feet and faces. O'Reily, without words to draw on for such an occasion, waited for her to speak. He cleared his throat.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
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