Stepping down behind Atherton from the coach was a young man, much taller, much slenderer than he had been when he first went aboard the Lucy. Instinctively Charles looked over at his brother, and saw in his expression first a graveness, and then behind it a barely contained delight, a full burst of love. It was his son, Teddy, thank God, and that meant that Edmund’s family, what family he had left, would all be home for Christmas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHARLES FINCH is the author of the Charles Lenox mysteries, including The Fleet Street Murders, The September Society, A Stranger in Mayfair, A Burial at Sea, A Death in the Small Hours, An Old Betrayal, and The Laws of Murder. His first contemporary novel, The Last Enchantments, is also available from St. Martin’s Press.
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