The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

Chapter One The Alfama steps groaned under the weight of a Tuesday that smelled of diesel and dried lavender, a city of terraced houses hanging precariously over the Tagus like a ship’s rigging that had forgotten how to sail, and in the shadow of the last gas station on the hill, where the air hung with the metallic tang of burnt oil, Filomena Barros stood wiping a streak of grime from a...

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