The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

Chapter One Renate Becker, thirty-four years old, had not slept in four days because the sleet on the alpine path was making her boots freeze into the stone, a fact that mattered more than the pension she sought to secure by catching a smuggler. The air in the valley smelled of wet wool and old rust, a scent that clung to the back of her throat as she climbed the final switchback toward the...

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