For more than a thousand days, Alice Dempster has visited Ashton Falls' cemetery every evening to maintain the flame in a rusted lantern she has placed at the base of a tombstone. Regardless of the weather or her health, she performs her duty...a duty she believes in with all her heart. One night, after three years of performing her ritual, Alice finds a filthy stranger lying asleep near the headstone...a man who has seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Who is he? Where did he come from? Alice takes him in. The Ashton Falls gossip mill adds him to their abiding enmity and suspicion of Alice. Small minds eventually create a tragedy that was simply waiting to happen

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