A Walker in the Evening

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Austria-Hungary 1909.</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> From the moment Yuri Moroz sets out on an evening patrol of</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the Ukrainian village where he lives he's plunged into memories of the eerie</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>circumstances that forced him to flee London and the priesthood to seek safety far from home.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eugenie his wife is having bad dreams and worries that he's restless and misses his old life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That couldn't be farther from the truth but his protests have failed to convince her. Now</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>as he walks the village's dusty lanes ... Yuri recalls his early years as a</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Catholic priest his triumphs in the pulpit a strange relic left for him by his father his</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>encounters with artists dandies ghosts and spiritualists and a selfish act that led to</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>disaster ... [as] he struggles to figure out an explanation that will satisfy her by the time the sun rises-if</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the strange perils waiting for him in the dark don't get him first.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A page-turning gothic tale A Walker in the Evening brings together the contrasting</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>worlds of 1880s literary London and a struggling Eastern European village in the life of one</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>unforgettable character.</span></p>