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and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce

And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway

and their spiritual hunger will be satisfied

Four days later a finger shows up in the mail

The Shallow Seas - A Tale Of Two Cities, Singapore And Batavia Condition:Very Good The #1 New York TimesIn Volume 2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scandalous liaison with her married Chinese lover, a liaison which would bring ruin on him, herself, and her brother, Robert, Singapore's Chief of Police. When Tigran Manouk, forty, and the richest merchant in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, asks for her hand in marriage, the choice is no choice. Through loss and pain, Charlotte