He smiled, a natural smile, with no shadows in it, then he put his arm around her and they walked on.
‘A stormcrow brings warning of a storm, it is true, but it also flies before the storm and, in the end, outraces it,’ he said. ‘We are all stormcrows, each one of us, for we all, at some time, bring bad news. But whilst I had to tell my brother that his wife was dead, and my mother that her son had died, I was also the bearer of good news, for I told my sister she was free. Our children will have their own storms and their own sanctuaries in the course of their lives, their own good news and bad.’
‘And, if they are lucky, they will find their own loves, as we have,’ said Helena.
She thought of the first time she had seen Simon. She had had no idea, when he had taken her up in his carriage, that she would fall in love with him. It had come upon her so slowly that she could not pinpoint the day or the time when it had happened, but it was now so much a part of her existence that she could no longer conceive of life without him.
Byron’s poetry came back to her and she murmured the words softly:
‘A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. Each kiss a heart quake.
‘I never thought I would find it, that kind of love, nor my place in the world,’ she said, ‘but here it is, at Stormcrow Castle, with you.’
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Jane Austen retellings (also available in hardback and paperback)
Mr Darcy’s Diary
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Mr Knightley’s Diary
(Emma)
Edmund Bertram’s Diary
(Mansfield Park)
Colonel Brandon’s Diary
(Sense and Sensibility)
Captain Wentworth’s Diary
(Persuasion)
Henry Tilney’s Diary(forthcoming)
(Northanger Abbey)
Regency Romances
A Most Unusual Governess
The Earl Next Door
The Six Month Marriage
One Snowy Night
The Silverton Scandal
One Night At The Abbey
Castle of Secrets
Edwardian Romances (Downton Abbey era)
That Would Be A Fairy Tale
Titanic Affair
(Set on board the ill-fated liner, Titanic)
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
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