Deception

Weldon could not remember the last time he had met a prisoner who seemed delighted to be questioned by him."He thought she had come to change his workplace. He found she was there to change his life. Still pained by the loss of an old love, Weldon Chapman has his life complicated by an order to question a prisoner with a mysterious past. That she is also a discerning woman seems unimportant at first. Having worked for many years in a prison where he is forbidden to marry, Weldon has long since reconciled himself to the fact that his relations with female prisoners must remain strictly professional. But Weldon is about to learn that his own past is as much a mystery as his prisoner's. and that his prisoner holds the key which will open the door to that mystery. This novella (short novel) of heterosexual love, gay male love, and a love that's never whispered can be read on its own or as the first story in the "Transformation" volume of The Eternal Dungeon, an award-winning speculative fiction series set in a nineteenth-century prison.