Necessary Sins (Lazare Family Saga #1)

Part V In Limbo

PART V

IN LIMBO

Charleston

It has pleased Divine Providence to permit us to be sorely afflicted. Our holy and our beautiful house…is burnt up with fire

and all our pleasant things are laid to waste.

— C. E. Gadsden, Rector of Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church,

after the 1835 Charleston fire