Family Drama · fiction
The Coat of Borrowed Poverty
Nathaniel Colton Mercer rode into Broken Creek wearing another man’s poverty. The coat hanging from his shoulders had belonged to a ranch hand who had left Hawthorne months earlier. It was too large through the chest, frayed at both cuffs, and patched once near the right elbow. His boots were sound but scratched enough to suggest years of hard...
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- Genre
- Family Drama
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
- Fiction status
- fiction
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