Mr. Gabriel Farley,
I write to inform you of an issue that has transpired. I shall be unable to meet with you this very evening as I have been called away to the bedside of one of my ailing parishioners. Although it was my hope to meet and discuss your sister, I must attend to this matter first. If you are amiable, I shall return to the church posthaste and will be in my office at sunrise the following morning. We could perhaps speak then.
I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
YOU ARE READING
Senseless
Historical FictionThe year is 1879. When thirteen-year-old Ruth Merritt Holbrook emerges from her family's burning estate, bloody and charred, but entirely numb--She makes headlines. Reporters believe she is deranged. They accuse her of having set the fire. All the h...