A Hanging at Dawn: A Bess Crawford Short Story

“ Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters.” – The
Sun-Sentinel
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery
series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon
Brandon’s past.
Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield
nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful
eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two
formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her
father’s Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who
taught Bess to ride and shoot, escorted her to the bazaars and the Maharani’s
Palace, and did his best to keep her out of trouble, after the Crawford family
took an interest in the tall, angry boy with a mysterious past.
But the Crawfords have long guarded secrets for Simon and he owes them a debt
that runs deeper than Bess could ever know. Told through the eyes of Melinda,
Richard, Clarissa, and Bess, A Hanging at Dawn pieces together a mystery at
the center of Bess’s family that will irrevocably change the course of her
future.
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