Nature of Fragile Things
Nature of Fragile Things April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he…
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Nature of Fragile Things
April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about.
Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right.Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her