Newly graduated, James Elliot walks twenty-five miles to Alton to become assistant to the village physician, Thomas Gordon. The town idolises the older man, but Elliot soon senses that Gordon’s household and the women around him are bound up in a secret, and the mystery draws him in further than he would like.
A rare excursion into suspense by the New England short-story writer of A New England Nun. Download the free EPUB.