For a moment she was disoriented in her new surroundings: a spacious suite of third-floor rooms overlooking the sea at Kevernwood Hall. It was the sound of the sea that woke her. The flaw was at the full height of its fury, flinging diaphanous clouds of spindrift over the brow of the cliff below....
It was very late, but the magistrate had wine brought to the parlor study, and sat in his favorite Glastonbury chair beside the chimney while Robert highlighted his interview with Doctor Nostradamus. “I’m sorry, Robert,” Montaigne said, genuinely. “I know you do not think it, but I had hoped.” “I...
The corrals had to be built first. Not that Trace was in a hurry; the northern ranchers needed time to come with the law. Just past dawn they set out: Trace, White Eagle, and half the Walapai riders. The rest of the Indians remained out of sight, keeping an eye on Mae and Comstock, as their chief...