title: 13 Pieces: Short Stories and Poetry
author: Dawn LaBuy-Brockett
description: Dawn LaBuy-Brockett is a music composer, playwright, and published author. Her birthday is April Fools' Day. Doesn't that explain just about everything?
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  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  > 1\. _The Coal Boy_
  
  > 2\. _Tied with a Bow_
  
  > 3\. _Four Years Later_
  
  > 4\. _The Ball_
  
  > 5\. _Cruel to be Kind_
  
  > 6\. _The Next Morning_
  
  > 7\. _A Sawbones in Southwark_
  
  > 8\. _From the Vein_
  
  > 9\. _In the Light of Day_
  
  > 10\. _Warlords and Dragons_
  
  > 11\. _Invisible Wounds_
  
  > 12\. _Wild Beasts and Savages_
  
  > 13\. _Answering Thunder_
  
  > 14\. _An Enemy at the Gate_
  
  > 15\. _The Evening of_
  
  > 16\. _That Afternoon of_
  
  > 17\. _Dawn_
  
  > 18\. _The Long Road_
  
  >  _Epilogue_
  
  >  _Sneak Peek: Dancing With Danger_
  
  > > >  _Chapter 1_
  
  > > >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Also by Kerrigan Byrne_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
   _To my Anam Cara._
  
   _I recognized you instantly and never looked back._
  
  > > PROLOGUE
  
  > CHARITON’S DOCK, SOUTHWARK, LONDON, 1880
  
  > ![](Images/image00127.jpeg)
  
  A s Honoria’s blood pooled onto the dock from the bullet wound, she felt oddly
  relieved.
  
  She was ready to die.
  
  Marriage to William Mosby, the Viscount Woodhaven, 