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Royal beauty bright: a novel of World War I

✍ Scribed by Ryan Byrnes

Book ID
100051150
Publisher
Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC;Blank Slate Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
141 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1943075603

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

After an autistic man ends up in the trenches of World War I, a nun-turned-journalist dances with treason to care for him, and a candy store clerk posing as Santa Claus risks everything to bring him home.

Luther Baker is a kind-hearted autistic man with a savant's knack for making chocolate truffles. His entire life, he has worked in his family's sweet shop alongside his single motherβ€”until he is illegally thrust into the horrors of World War I.

While in France, Luther meets Ethyl, an aspiring journalist who tries to expose his plight. As Christmas approaches, Luther sinks into despair and Ethyl is threatened with punishment.

Back home, Luther's brother Jim enlists with the British Army Postal Service. His job, delivering sacks of Christmas gifts to the frontline soldiers, is a cover for his plan to rescue Luther. The plan is made even more difficult by three refugee girls convinced that Jim, with his bag of gifts, is Santa Claus.

Jim and...

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