The bed had been warmed, but she still trembled, and she couldn’t stop crying. She had had to have help to undress. Thankfully, it was provided by John Steigermann’s quiet wife rather than his daughter, Leah. She couldn’t bear the look she saw in Leah’s eyes, the profound relief that it was Carol...
The Duke of Bedford (a progressive landowner whose estates were both productive and profitable, and whose annual “sheep shearing” was an event that drew farmers and landowners from all over the midlands to his estate in Bedfordshire) had heard that Lord Kittridge was interested in developing his ...