The Guardian Angel
A newspaper advertisement announces the disappearance of Myrtle Hazard, and a small New England town unravels. Myrtle, a young woman of uncertain parentage, has vanished from the home of her guardians, one a rigid disciplinarian, the other her free-spirited aunt, leaving behind questions that probe the very nature of identity. What follows is a Victorian novel that treats heredity as thriller, tracing the invisible threads of ancestry that shape desire, temperament, and fate. Holmes, himself a physician, brings scientific rigor to the mysteries of the human heart, asking whether we are architects of our own souls or merely inheritors of deeper, older truths. The narrative crackles with Gothic intrigue as secrets surface and characters confront the weight of blood. For readers who crave psychological depth beneath period surfaces, who wonder what we owe to the dead who came before us.
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“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. ””
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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