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Years before Anne Shirley ever arrives in Avonlea, Mr. Phillips is just a sixteen-year-old student-poor, awkward, and desperate to survive a brutal home life. Enter Professor Edmund Whitcomb. Respected, disciplined, and terrifyingly sharp, Whitcomb represents everything Teddy Phillips is not. But behind closed classroom doors, their strict teacher-student dynamic shifts into something far more dangerous. Whitcomb begins teaching Phillips the rules of survival: how to dress, how to court a woman, how to hide his fear, and how to bury the parts of himself the world would gladly destroy. But as the long winter evenings blur the lines between mentorship and a forbidden connection, Phillips learns a much harsher truth. The man shaping him into a proper gentleman is also the only man he will ever love-and the very person who will teach him exactly how much he must sacrifice to stay hidden. Discover the tragic origin of Avonlea's most infamous schoolmaster in this haunting, unofficial prequel to Anne of Green Gables
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