Carved into the wooden doorframe — faint, almost invisible — was a symbol she immediately recognized.
At first glance it looked like a natural mark in the wood.
Or maybe just a shadow.
But Rachel knew better.
It was a pattern she had studied years earlier during her graduate research.
A symbol used by the Underground Railroad.
Rachel felt a chill run down her spine.
That couldn’t be possible.
The Underground Railroad had stopped operating in 1865 when the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished.
This photograph had been taken twenty-two years later.
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