Teaser Tuesday...Emerald Atlas

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser: 
But then St. Mary's had burned down-along with the Mother Superior, a kind woman named Sister Agatha, who took a special interest in the children but who had a bad habit of smoking in bed...

The Emerald Atlas, by John Stephens.





I love this line, I don't know any smoking nuns, but a couple of priest I know.  Wouldn't that have made a great newspaper headline, "Smoking Nun burns down Orphanage".  Yet another thing that would be the Pope's fault.