Orphaned at fifteen in 1883, Ezekiel Harrington is forced from his home in remote Nebraska into the hands of strangers in Philadelphia. They steal from him, and he flees their abuse. Only his drive and stubborn tenacity keep him from starving.

After desolate years, a collective of striving artists befriends him. A crude Bohemian woman of incredible talent is in the group, a woman Ezekiel despises.

He rents a failing storefront, sets himself up as an art gallery owner and naively sets out to make his fortune. Reality has another idea.

When business throws Ezekiel and the illicit Bohemian together, his life changes and catapults him on an intense and unexpected course.

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In COME THE MORNING Jeannie Burt spins a story of love and longing, betrayal, loneliness, and hard truth. Her story delivers a lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time that holds some resonance to Henry James.