Overview

Jake Corneux is nineteen years old, French-born, and the most promising disappointment in his father's considerable empire. He speaks three languages, reads a room better than most men twice his age, and escapes through his bedroom window at every available opportunity.

One morning, running east across the fields beyond the estate, he stops at the edge of a stranger's land and watches a young man work in the cut wheat and doesn't know - why he can't make himself leave? Hart is everything Jake has never had to patient, self-possessed, already the kind of person Jake is still figuring out how to become.

146 pages