The Return of Monte Cristo: Vengeance's Shadow

The revenge is over. The Count of Monte Cristo is gone. In his place is Armand Leclerc - modest shipping merchant of Marseille, donor to the sailors' hospital, a man who walks the harbor before dawn and has given away most of his fortune. Three years of the quiet life. Three years of trying to be something smaller and more honest than what the dungeon made him. Then a young woman arrives at his door. Céleste Mondego, daughter of the man he destroyed, has spent twelve years building a legal case - not for vengeance, but for the record. She wants a court document that says: this happened, and it was wrong, and we did not deserve it. What follows is a story about what comes after justice - about the people who live in the wreckage of other people's righteous anger, and about the specific courage required to face them honestly. The perfect sequel for fans of Dumas who always wondered: what did the Count owe to the people who never wronged him?

Pagina's: 196, Paperback, Independently published