The People of the Mist
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You are Leonard Outram, watching your family estate auctioned off room by room after your father's fraud, disgrace, and death. At the rectory next door, Jane Beach still wants to stand by the engagement her father now treats as void, but Reverend Beach refuses even a conditional promise and steers his daughter toward a wealthier guest. Your brother Thomas proposes an oath, sworn on a chained Bible, to win back Outram by honest means alone — and the ship sails for Africa with no letter from Jane at all.
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- The Oath beneath the Sold PortraitsOutram, England