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PART 2 The war had already begun by the time Ruth died. In April 1861 Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, and the Whitmore household […]

PART 2 Samuel’s first year passed inside Dinah’s cabin. She kept him in during the day and brought him out only at the edges of […]

PART 2 The Paraguaçu mill was the richest in the region, and it was already cracking. Tools snapped for no reason. Furnaces died on their […]

The shot cracked through the saloon like a bone breaking. Thomas Burch slumped onto the cards, a neat hole in the center of his forehead, […]

THE ENDING: WHAT THE CANDLES REVEALED The scream tore through the great hall like something alive. When the servants relit the candles with shaking hands, […]

THE ACCOUNT IS SETTLED Dr. Thomas Merritt died on the night of August 24th, drowning in his own lungs, exactly as he had once said […]

PART 2 The days crawled by with torturous slowness. Every dawn brought the crushing weight of the decision. Every night found Fernando staring at the […]

PART 2 Let’s go back to that muddy courtyard. Colonel Manuel Ferreira stood on his platform, his pride bleeding in front of hundreds of silent […]

In the very center square of a prosperous coffee-growing town in the interior of Minas Gerais, under the scorching sun of a morning in 1859, […]