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- Author: Sarah M. Eden
- Genre: Christian Mystery & Suspense Romance
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
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Chapter One
County Durham, September 1818
THE LONDON SEASON WAS OVER, and Society had retreated to its various
country houses to continue their revelry in more private settings. For her part,
Gillian Phelps retreated to Houghton Manor in Durham and embraced the
revelry of time well spent on the grounds and in the surrounding countryside,
tending to plants in the conservatory and indulging in a bit of correspondence
with her closest friends. It was precisely how she spent all her time away
from London.
She didn’t dislike the social whirl. She simply needed the balance of time in
the country surrounded by nature after months in Town among the ton. This
year, however, she was leaving Durham—after not nearly enough time there
—to attend a house party. She had never been a guest at a house party before,
though she’d heard many tales of them, both from those she knew in Society
and from Mrs. Brownlow, her benefactress and the mistress of Houghton
Manor. Gillian fluctuated between being disappointed at leaving the peace
and quiet of Houghton Manor and worried that she would make an utter cake
of herself at her very first house party.
She considered herself intelligent and clever. Society hadn’t declared her a
complete disaster, though that was owed more to the tutelage and support of
her friends than to any social ability on her part. She belonged to a group of
friends known throughout Society as the Huntresses, their fearless leader
being Artemis Jonquil, whose ancient namesake was the goddess of the hunt
and leader of her own band of huntresses. The seven members of Artemis’s
band were the very closest of friends.
Gillian would not have admitted to having a favorite, but she didn’t imagine
it had escaped the notice of the Huntresses that she and Daria Mullins, one of
their number, were particularly close. Indeed, Daria was at Houghton Manor
now, the two of them having decided to make the journey to Cumberland
together. Daria had arrived two days earlier, and their time together had been
as delightful as ever. The Mullins family hadn’t the financial hardships
Gillian’s family did, but they had struggles of their own: animosity, anger,
and general misery. Perhaps that was what had endeared the two of them to
each other so quickly—their families had proven more a difficulty in their
lives than a comfort.
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