The Crimson Rooms

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Still haunted by the death of her only brother James in the Great War Evelyn Gifford is completely unprepared when a young nurse and her six-year-old son appear on the Giffords' doorstep one night. The child the nurse claims is James's conceived in a battlefield hospital. The grief-stricken Giffords take them both in; but Evelyn a struggling attorney must now support her entire family-at a time when work for women lawyers is almost nonexistent.Suddenly a new case falls in Evelyn's lap: Seemingly hopeless it's been abandoned by her male coworkers. The accused-a veteran charged with murdering his young wife- is almost certain to die on the gallows. . . . And yet Evelyn believes he is truly innocent just as she suspects there may be more to the story of her "nephew" than meets the eye. . .