Long Night's Moon

By Cate Martin

Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. But just because alcohol is legal doesn't mean it's easy to find.

Anna Olsen wants her sister to have all the best for her engagement party. And the best means champagne. Only scarcity thwarts her every attempt to find any. She knows where to find all she could ever want. But getting it? Not so easy.

George Andrews appreciates his mentor trying to find him a bride. But none of the candidates at his mentor's New Year's Eve party intrigue him half as much as the woman he catches sneaking around the back corridors, looking for the wine cellar. But what links her to the man like a father to him?

"Long Night's Moon", a short story of romance with a little crime, set in post-Prohibition Minnesota.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ratatoskr Press
• Release date: Dec 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781958606407

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Long Night’s Moon

LONG NIGHT’S MOON

CATE MARTIN

Ratatoskr Press

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LONG NIGHT’S MOON

Anna Olsen left her coat inside her father's truck even though she had parked a block away from the Schmidt mansion, and the night air was so cold it hurt to breathe. But it was iffy that her black dress with its pinned-on white collar was going to let her blend in with the kitchen staff as it was. With a coat? No way.

So she tucked her hands under her armpits and hurried up the icy sidewalk, trying not to gawk at the gorgeous homes all around her, all lit up and filled with people gathering together to ring in 1934. She could just see the Lake of the Isles through the trees, and she knew the view out of every window at the back of the Schmidt mansion would be spectacular.

The walkway to the front door was shoveled and ice-free, but she wasn't going to pass as the help if she went in the front door. Instead, she trudged across the pristine snow towards the back of the house. It had been a comparatively warm Christmas, warm enough to melt some of the accumulated inches of snow, but the days since had gotten colder and colder, and that half-melted snow had a top layer of ice that was sharp enough to cut like glass when her feet broke through it. Her stockings were going to be a total loss, and they were her only pair.

Still, it was a beautiful night, the full moon made so much brighter as it reflected off of the sparkling snow. When her mother led everyone outside at midnight to bring in the new year under the stars and her sister Helen finally announced the engagement that they'd all been expecting for years and years, it was going to be like something out of a fairy tale.

But it was going to be lacking just one