No matter how fast he dressed, he’d be too late to stop his sons from showing Isabel her fan or revealing she was the subject of his private dreams. Peter pulled on his comfortable black clothes, grabbed the beribboned cane and hobbled as quickly down to his waiting carriage. The vehicle crawled ...
Crossing his stretched out legs he smiled at the woman shielding her blushes from the sun with a red parasol. He’d looked into her eyes and his heart had been changed as if by magic. Emily Godfrey made his chest ache in the most pleasurable manner. He couldn’t imagine sharing his life with any ot...
As she sorted her morning post into piles, time seemed to stop as she read her name and directions in a strange elegant scribble. She didn’t recognise the seal stamped in the globule of red wax. With shaking hands she picked up her letter-knife and carefully severed the seal from the paper. The i...
Lily shivered with fear as frightening shadows flickered across strange reflective surfaces. Touching her throbbing head her fingers found stubble. Her hair, it was gone. Sitting up, she could see the bedclothes beside her had been recently occupied. Yes, they were still warm to the touch. Had sh...
Jostled off the path into the grass, John paused in the overgrown churchyard to put up his umbrella and shake off the smiling young woman. “You will begin the journey back to Bolingbroke House tomorrow and unless you run away to marry some fool, stay there. Do whatever you wish to my house, just ...
Mystical animals stuck out their wooden tongues as they crawled up the staircase and onto the first floor landing where family portraits stared with indifference as their progeny marched past. Down a corridor and up a short flight of stairs she rudely opened her mother’s chamber door without knoc...
She’d just sat down in one of the two chairs when she heard a loud male voice ring out making her jump. “Where is my new sister…she can’t eat in the dark; serve us in the formal dining room and set the table for three…I’ve told my brother…the fool isn’t going to eat in the dark with his bride. If...