Far More than Rubies
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Bess is a modest, hard-working servant fleeing a secret plot in London. Henri is a soft-spoken Huguenot reverend fleeing persecution in France. They meet at the edge of the English Channel - at the edge of the world as they have known it.
[Companion piece to The Heir and the Spared][Drabble-style]
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