Katherine's. He stamped his feet with the cold and blew on his hands. A plank had been flung across the gap between the boat and the dock and De Baas, immediately recognizable from his hawk-like visage, pranced across it. "Mes cheres,” he exclaimed, grasping Henshaw and Ki...
He looked up as Kate entered the room, placing the bowl of roses on the small table at her elbow. She saw amusement in the faded eyes and cursed the freckles that had appeared around her nose at the first touch of sun. Her hair fell in an ungovernable tangle from beneath her cap. She was certain ...
The only sound in the room came from the deep-throated tick tock of the grandfather clock in the corner. Birdsong drifted in through the open window along with the smell of the late summer roses that bloomed prolifically in the bright, sunny little garden. She held her cup in both hands and smile...
All that day and through the night driving rain poured relentlessly through the holes in the walls and roofs of the castle buildings and the courtyard turned to a quagmire. After a sleepless night, during which she had smothered hot, shameful tears in her bolster, Deliverance leaned on the castle...
Like Suzanna, all those years before, she had passed the night in ‘a foment of indecision’, her head telling her one thing and her heart another. But as Suzanna would have observed, ruled by her heart, she had risen early and on the pretence of taking a ride before breakfast, had stepped onto the...
Sarah clung to Agnes’s arm, still weepy with grief for her aunt. Ashby had arranged his men down each side of the Great Hall, the two lines closing behind the prisoners as they walked the length of the room. Tobias Ashby himself waited on the dais, with Turner behind him. Next to her brother, Lea...