
Twenty-three-year-old Greif returned from university through the deep forest below his family's castle. His father walked down alone to meet the carriage as he had done at every homecoming. You step into this one-chapter preview with Greifenstein at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Tomorrow I meet the woman I mean to marry and discover whether this secret reached her before I did. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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