The Scarlet Letter (paperback) Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the market-place, Hester Prynne stands on the scaffold, sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. Refusing to reveal the identity of her baby's father, she is shunned by the townspeople and is destined to live a solitary life on the edge of town with her daughter, Pearl. Then a physician arrives in town carrying a secret that will ravage the lives of those closest to him, includig his newest patient, the town's beloved minister. 

September 2023