
Grace Perivale returned from five solitary months in Italy to the white-and-gold drawing rooms of her London house. The villa felt alive with sea and flowers; this fortune has furnished only magnificent silence. You step into this one-chapter preview with Susan Rodney at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The scandal had emptied the salver; uncovering its maker would decide whether it could empty her life as well. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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