Author: rosie

  Author’s Note:   Please note that we’re skipping forward in time to the period after Anthony Winterbourne’s death.  When I do the re-writes and edits, I’ll be inserting a chapter to cover Justine’s marriage to Anthony and Sidney’s early … Read More

  My marriage to Anthony Winterbourne, despite the hurried nature in which it had come about, began on a high note.  After our tiny ceremony at St. Matthew’s and the even tinier wedding breakfast which Bertie had prepared, we spent … Read More

  I’d always believed in a divine choreography. I’d believed that the universe moved us around, backwards and forwards, sometimes in spirals, bringing us into circles of time and space, brushing us up against people who we’d later discover had … Read More

  On the second day of my three-day holiday at Foxglove, there was a knock at the door.  I was alone, calmer than I was when I’d arrived, but suddenly nervous at the fact there was a visitor outside.  Glancing … Read More

  After my first episode with Gregory’s spirit, things began to change. Thinking upon it now, it was very probably a combination of factors:  my epiphany in the heath, my experience with Greg, my starting to write again and my … Read More

  After Gregory’s funeral, George returned to London to complete his final term at university, leaving Lady and me alone with Bertie often dropping in to see how we were doing.  With Gregory gone, the workload stayed the same which … Read More

All the clocks in the house had been draped in black cloth, so one didn’t know the time for certain, but, judging by the darkening sky, it was four o’clock, the hour of nightfall in December.  I’d already lit the … Read More

  “What are you standing there for, you useless girl?”  Lady cried, banging her hand on the desk, sending several of the bottles spinning to the floor so they shattered at her feet.  “For God’s sake, get the doctor!  I … Read More

  Author’s Note:   This chapter was written long before the Justine/Gregory story-line was developed so there will be several changes in the edited version of the novel.  The book being burned will not be ‘Torrid’ in the final story.  … Read More