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    Gustave Lumière has spent six years surviving. The only thing he could do was take whatever engineering work he could find while trying to ignore the grief, poverty, and humiliation left behind by the railway accident that took his left arm.

    When he is hired to repair the aging Dessendre manor, he expects cold aristocrats. What he could not expect is Verso Dessendre.

    The middle child is curious, lonely and endlessly persistent. Verso is fascinated by both Gustave’s work and the man himself. When the distance between them shrinks, Gustave has no choice but to confront the possibility that he may deserve more than survival.

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