The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner.
The Blacksmith's Son by Rebecca ThomasCaptain Quentin Drake returns home after his Naval commission ends to find a young groom being beaten in the village stables.
An innocent long-distance correspondence leads to complications in this Regency romance by the New York Times–bestselling author of For My Lady’s Heart.
