Roger Willoughby

Roger Willoughby hid in a bramble-lined hollow above the Lyme cliffs with a navigation book, watching a ship labor against the Channel breeze. I have been studying Drake and Cavendish, but the ship below has taught me more about wind than the page has done. You step into this one-chapter preview with Roger Willoughby at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Tomorrow's tide may bring a safer answer, if you have done the study you promised. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.

Chapters

1. The Ship in the Channelthe cliffs above Lyme, Eversden Manor, and the road to the shore · 5 min

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