While Lily saw to the unpacking of her things in the grand bedchamber she’d been assigned, shouts drifted in her open window, drawing her attention. Looking out, she saw two gentlemen on horseback racing hell for leather across the open land to the east. They were neck and...
She supposed he’d been annoyed by their conversation, but still she was surprised. “We had a disagreement,” she told Will when he asked after his brother. He sucked his teeth. “Let me guess: you waited until tonight to tell him you were leaving.” &n...
Lady Grandville looked subtly beautiful in a gown of shimmering olive satin, which contrasted richly with her butter-and-cream hair and picked up flecks of moss green and sunlight gold in her eyes. The gown had a square neckline that sat well on her gently rounded shoulders and fitted her handsom...
The red and pink flowers were in full glory, and ever since coming home a month before, she’d found herself gazing at them with an almost physical need for their beauty. But they would be battered and broken by the wind’s rough treatment if they weren’t protected. As she w...