The Distant Promise

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The damp bit into Elias Thorne’s bones as he gripped the foundation stone, the cold granite slick with rot and the weight of decades. He was forty, a man carved from the same hard clay as the house, but the stone beneath his palm pulsed with a rhythmic, impossible heat. It was a fever in the rock, a slow, steady throb that defied the freezing air of the ancestral hall. He needed money. Clara’s...

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