Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we’re responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices.

Thank you all for such a warm and generous welcome. As we all are perfectly aware, my first act as mistress of the house shall be to bed your master. Do excuse.

How had things gone so terribly wrong? She wasn’t supposed to be returning to Murdoch House in defeat, and she most certainly was not supposed to be returning alone.Lilly should be there. And Gideon. High-handed,...