Joanna stared out the bedroom window as if sheer will would lighten the sky. “The moon is full and I so wanted to be able to see the stars.” “It will be perfect, Joanna. You wait and see.” Christiana hurried the rest of her toilette. This was Joanna’s night and vanity was her sister’s alone to co...
Beatrice danced around him, more sprite than Venus. Her dress was a tribute to summer, the lightest lawn with an underskirt of pale yellow that made her look like she was as much a part of the garden as the flowering shrubs along the edge of the grass. “Then you have no imagination, Beatrice.” Je...
It flared for a moment, and then the room fell into darkness again. Locking the door, he prepared to make the rounds to be sure the house was secured. A silly precaution in a house under quarantine, with a sign on the gates announcing it, but Mrs. Cantwell had asked him to see to it and he would....