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    Hart's Crossing
    Hart's Crossing
    Hart's Crossing
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    Hart's Crossing

    By Clint Westgard

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    Alice arrives to Hart's Crossing, in the wild foothills of turn of the century Alberta, a girl of no more than fourteen, to live with her aunt following her father's untimely death. There she will find love and heartbreak, and come to understand the darkness that lies in the hearts of others.

    For all is not as it seems at Hart's Crossing. There is the stern and forbidding Andrew Hart, whose countenance strikes fear in Alice and who is hiding something terrible. But even Aunt Muriel and Jack, her love, are keeping their own secrets.

    When they are revealed it is Alice who will pay the price. For she will find it is impossible to leave Hart's Crossing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLost Quarter Books
    Release dateNov 23, 2017
    ISBN9781928035381
    Hart's Crossing
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    Clint Westgard

    Clint Westgard is the author of The Shadow Men Trilogy and the science fiction epic The Sojourner Cycle, the first volume of which, The Forgotten, was published in 2015. In addition, he has published a work of historical fantasy set in colonial Peru, The Masks of Honor, and a retelling of the Minotaur legend, The Trials of the Minotaur. Clint Westgard lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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      Hart's Crossing - Clint Westgard

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      HART’S CROSSING

      CLINT WESTGARD

      Hart's Crossing

      Published by Lost Quarter Books

      November 2017

      Hart's Crossing by Clint Westgard is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  

      ISBN: 978-1-928035-38-1

      Cover image from the Provincial Archives of Alberta

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      HART’S CROSSING

      I DON'T RECALL THE EXACT DETAILS...

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ALSO BY CLINT WESTGARD

      I don’t recall the exact details of my return to Hart’s Crossing. It was after the accident, that much is certain, but beyond that nothing is. My memory is troubled, whether from that incident, or some other that followed. This uncertainty worries me, on the occasions when my thoughts drift to those days, though I try not to allow them to. That is a futile struggle when I find myself unable to leave Hart’s Crossing. So much of the past is still alive for me in this place, for it cannot die.

      Hart’s Crossing was once my home, a place where I loved and was loved in return, but no longer. Now it is my prison, a place where it seems I am doomed to remain for all the time that is left to me, embittered against my captors and hated and feared by them in equal measure. Such a cruel twist of fate that it should come to this end, after such a beautiful beginning. I cannot account for it, but then my memory, since the accident, is not what it was.

      My days now are spent hiding from those I once welcomed with laughter and delight. I lurk in the bedrooms when everyone else is downstairs taking their meals, or whiling away an evening at cards. Only at night, when they are asleep, do I dare to descend, stalking the parlor and the kitchen like a cat after a mouse. Sometimes the floors creak at my passage, or I brush against some book sending it to the floor, announcing my presence for all to hear. In those moments I flee to the cellar or the attic, if I am able, and remain until they leave me in peace.

      But there can be little solace here for me. No longer. Why do I remain then? It is hard for me to explain, but I shall try.

      I came to Hart’s Crossing three years ago, a girl of no more than fourteen. My father had died suddenly of a hidden ailment in his heart, according to the doctor who examined him. My mother had passed of tuberculosis not long after I was born. My father’s sister, Muriel, who I had never met, sent for

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