The Distant Whispers

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Chapter One Cause of death: natural decline. The ink was still wet on the ledger page when Bernadette Ortego saw the line, a thin black scar cutting across the damp paper. It was three in the morning, the hour when the hospital sounds at the sugar mill’s infirmary turned into a low, mechanical hum, a grinding of gears that matched the ache in her own nine-fingered hand. She was twenty-three, or...

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