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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Heart Beneath the Silk
Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35518883
EAN: 9798185002629
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Zustellung: Di, 20.10.2026
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Beschreibung
Camille Devereux has spent her whole life inside the careful world her father built - a tailoring fortune, a respected name, a place among the city's free Black elite so precisely calibrated that one misstep could undo two decades of quiet construction. She is expected to marry well. She is expected to want to. Then a simple commission - a dowry chest, nothing more - brings her to the workshop of Théo Bellamy, a cabinetmaker who bought his own freedom and built a name from nothing but skill and patience. What begins as a conversation about proportion becomes something neither of them can afford to want. When fear and good intentions conspire to keep the truth from reaching her in time, Camille makes the only choice the world seems to leave her - and spends the next two decades building a life of genuine purpose, real partnership, and quiet, private longing for the one door she believes closed forever. It will take a husband's accident, a father's long-buried past, a mother's deathbed confession, and a son stepping into a future his grandfather never could have imagined, before Camille learns the truth of what was taken from her - and discovers that some doors, however long shut, can still be found again. >Editorial Review / Pull-Quote"A quietly devastating story about what we lose to fear, and what faith can still recover - Morant writes Charleston's hidden histories with the same patience and precision as her own craftsman hero. ".
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Nefretiti Morant
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 104