The House of Gentle Men

By: Kathy Hepinstall

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Synopsis: In a year of war, sixteen-year-old Charlotte embarks on a mission of love, only to be set upon by three soldiers in training in a lonely, isolated section of the Louisiana forest. When she gives birth to an unwanted baby nine months later -- a demon in her eyes -- Charlotte abandons it to the elements. Years pass, and a friend's gift of pity brings Charlotte to The House of Gentle Men -- a very special place in the woods where sad, damaged, overworked and unappreciated women find the solace and chaste kindness they so desperately crave, administered by haunted men wishing to atone for the crimes in their pasts. But Charlotte's own sins and secrets impel her to consort with one -- and only one -- man there: a damaged ex-soldier who once joined two comrades to defile a teenage girl in the Louisiana woods.