Will Warburton

Fresh from three Alpine weeks, you ran up four flights to your Chelsea flat with sea wind still in your hair. Dinner in three minutes, Mrs Hopper; mountain appetite will forgive everything except delay. You step into this one-chapter preview with Norbert Franks at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Morning would bring Allchin seeking work to a man who had not yet told anyone what work, capital, or independence the sugar house might take away. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.

Chapters

1. Sanctuary and the Sugar HouseChelsea · 5 min

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