The Nature of Fragile Things

Author(s)/Editor(s): Meissner, Susan - - Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20220104Standardized Book Category: Historical - GeneralLanguage: EnglishPage Count: 00384Large Print? : N Publisher Marketing: April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. 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. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. 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 trans