A widowed businessman returns early to his quiet mansion, ready to confront the housekeeper, but what he sees changes everything

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Epilogue: What the Garden Holds

In the years that followed, the house on the hill outside Asheville became recognizably itself again — not the same as it had been before, because the same was no longer available, but something genuine and specific continue reading …