The Distant Garden

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Chapter One The silk road hummed with the clatter of mules and the low, constant thrum of industry, a sound that settled into the bones of the folded hills before the sun cleared the peaks. Reza Nouri sat in the break room of the night warehouse, his hands stained with ink and the dust of dead leaves, listening to the mill siren tested at noon. He was forty-five, an archivist whose pension...

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