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SWAINS LOCK

a novel

Prologue

Blood Pendant

Part One

1

Figure Eights

2

Discovery

3

Whites Ferry

4

Candles

5

Sightseeing

6

Books

7

Newspapers

8

Spanish Ballroom

9

Snowshoeing

10

High-Water Marks

11

White Mules

12

Falling

13

Fever

Part Two

14

Locking Through

15

Paying for Ten

16

The Big Fish

17

Shadow Men

18

Cordwood

19

Silver and Gold

20

Sunset

21

Unwinding by Starlight

22

Swains Lock

23

Angling

24

Pennyfield Pages

25

Grave Dance

26

Paper Spear

Part Three

27

Rising

28

The Level Trade

29

Edwards Ferry

30

Emmert's Lockhouse

31

Archives

32

One Red Leaf

33

Reeds

34

Sharpsburg

35

Pas de Deux

36

Joined Sycamores

37

Full Circle

38

Revisiting