Teaser from PLAYING WITH FIRE

"I was fourteen when I came here," Jack said. “That’s a lot of years in which I thought I had no family. It took a long time to become used to being part of a real one. I suppose I just can’t think of him as my uncle. I’m still not certain he even is my relation at all anyway."

"You may have thought you had no family, but you had Tommy and the other boys. He’s as devoted to you as any brother. That’s family, Jack. Perhaps even a truer one than whatever it is August Langley has created here."

He stretched his arm across the back of the settee behind me. “You may be right. I’m finding that you often are."