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Historical Fiction · Romance · Drama

The Harbour of Lesser Saints

Marisol Ferrant

Two letters crossed the ocean. Only one was ever answered.

In a port city of shipwrights and smugglers, a cartographer's daughter and a disgraced ship's surgeon build a correspondence that outlasts the empire that forbids it.

Reading time
7 h 25 min read
Pages
418
Language
English
Recommended
14+
4.7 · 863 readers
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Story world

Puerto Ánima, 1847. A harbour where four flags flew in a single decade and the church kept a register of saints too small to be official.

DevotionExileLettersEmpireYearningTendernessLoss

Characters

  • Ysabel Corvo

    Cartographer's daughter

    Draws coastlines she will never sail.

  • Dr. Amadeo Rell

    Ship's surgeon

    Struck from the register in 1844.

  • Sister Perpetua

    Keeper of lesser saints

    Carries every letter she should burn.

Timeline

  1. 1844

    Amadeo is struck from the surgeons' register.

  2. 1847

    The first letter reaches Puerto Ánima.

  3. 1851

    The harbour changes flags for the fourth time.

Preview

A fifteen-second trailer, then the opening pages as they were first printed.

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Opening pages

She drew the coast as it was, then as it should have been, and sent him the second version.

He wrote back that he would sail to the country she had invented.

End of preview

Soundtrack

  1. 01Tall Ships at Anchor
  2. 02Lesser Saints
  3. 03The Fourth Flag

Reader reviews

  • “I have not been this moved by a love story in a decade.”

    Gaby M.

  • “The letters alone are worth the hardcover.”

    Ruud T.