Abbeychurch

After a summer walk with her sisters, Helen Woodbourne returned to the schoolroom to finish a drawing begun that morning. The new church will be consecrated on Thursday the twenty-eighth, not the Tuesday the Bishop first chose. You step into this one-chapter preview with Elizabeth Woodbourne at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Upstairs, Elizabeth sealed an invitation that would bring one ally as the crowded vicarage prepared to receive everyone else. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.

Chapters

1. Cushions before ConsecrationAbbeychurch vicarage · 6 min

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