The heavy dawn of March settled over the Oakridge Plantation in the Hawthorne Valley.
The air carried the smell of ripe coffee and damp soil, but inside the main house, it reeked of blood, sweat, and terror.
Sarah Amelia Whitmore screamed in the master bedroom. Mrs. Eleanor Price, the midwife, delivered the first baby. Then the second.
But when the …
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