
You are Cytherea Graye, watching your father work high on Hocbridge's Town Hall spire when his foot slips and he falls in front of the whole hall. Your brother Owen carries you home to a house already turning into an estate sale: unpaid bills, a shipwreck that swallowed the family savings, and a letter about a woman your father never mentioned. Within days you're both answering advertisements — a governess post, a lady's companion — when a reply comes from Knapwater House, addressed to you alone.
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