About this story
Between warnings about the beautiful, dangerous Lady Arabella March of Diana's Grove and an impossible trail, too wide for a cart, with no hoofprints, climbing a wall instead of crossing it, you finally meet her on the road. A mongoose bolts from a game bag and lunges for her throat, and she drives off before anyone can say why.
How it opens
After years in Australia, English rain made Southampton stone shine like iron.
Richard SaltonAdam, I would have known you from your father's shoulders alone.
Your great-uncle embraced you before either of you could attempt a formal bow.
Richard SaltonWe shall test kinship on the road, where silence cannot assist us.
Choose
Why choose an heir you had never met?
Tell me what Lesser Hill requires of me.
I came to meet family, not to claim property.