
Four months after your brother's death, sheep grazed the rented park almost to the door of the diminished family home. Charles has left debt, disgrace, and an entail that gives the estate to Will Belton when I die. You step into this one-chapter preview with Will Belton at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Before his short visit ended, you had to decide whether loyalty required silence or one careful question at the cottage. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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