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Alex

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Alexander Randall, the compassionate younger brother of the notorious Black Jack Randall, serves as an Anglican curate and secretary to the Duke of Sandringham in 1740s France and Scotland. Despite his deteriorating health from tuberculosis, he pursues a forbidden romance with young Mary Hawkins that results in pregnancy, demonstrating that beneath his proper clerical exterior beats a heart capable of profound love and sacrifice.

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