The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

October sun lit the birthday tents at Raynham, but you were already slipping away through the beechwood. They will call for us before the cricket begins, and your father will send everyone searching. You step into this one-chapter preview with Ripton Thompson at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. What the whip had begun as blind rage now possessed a place, a method, and a night on which it might be done. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.

Chapters

1. The Birthday Beyond RaynhamLobourne Valley · 5 min

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