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The Narrow Road Between Desires

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Chapters 10-12Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child abuse.

Chapter 10 Summary: “Twilight: Carrots”

Bast hurries toward the Waystone Inn, but he realizes that he has misplaced the carrots when he is about halfway there.

Chapter 11 Summary: “Night: Demons”

By the time that Bast arrives at the inn, the usual patrons are already eating dinner. Jessom Williams is the subject of the latest gossip. Jake heard that a cougar chased the man over a little cliff. Old Cob says that there’s no way a cougar chased him for two miles and that the man fell simply because he was drunk. Graham mentions that the injured Jessom was found by two children who were playing near a waterfall. According to the smith’s apprentice, someone discovered and damaged Martin’s hidden still. The men suspect that Jessom is responsible and worry that Martin will murder him because he’s attacked other men and animals in the past with far less provocation.


A man named Carter joins his friends in the inn and informs them that he just drove Jessom to Baedn. Jessom looked as though he’d been “beat by seven different demons” and enlisted in the king’s army that night (189). Everyone breathes a sigh of relief because an officer of the Crown would have been sent to Newarre to investigate if Martin murdered Jessom, and Martin likely would have resisted arrest, bringing grave trouble on the town.

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