Romance · fiction
The Rule That Was Hers to Choose
By the time the bidding reached forty dollars, Mae Walker understood that no miracle was coming. She stood on an overturned whiskey crate in the center of Misery Bend with sleet soaking through her shawl, her eight-month-old son pressed against her chest, and half the mining camp staring at her as though she were livestock. Samuel whimpered...
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- Romance
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
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- fiction
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