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Castle of Secrets

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by Amanda Grange


  He smiled, a natural smile, with no shadows in it, then he put his arm around her and they walked on.

  ‘A stormcrow brings warning of a storm, it is true, but it also flies before the storm and, in the end, outraces it,’ he said. ‘We are all stormcrows, each one of us, for we all, at some time, bring bad news. But whilst I had to tell my brother that his wife was dead, and my mother that her son had died, I was also the bearer of good news, for I told my sister she was free. Our children will have their own storms and their own sanctuaries in the course of their lives, their own good news and bad.’

  ‘And, if they are lucky, they will find their own loves, as we have,’ said Helena.

  She thought of the first time she had seen Simon. She had had no idea, when he had taken her up in his carriage, that she would fall in love with him. It had come upon her so slowly that she could not pinpoint the day or the time when it had happened, but it was now so much a part of her existence that she could no longer conceive of life without him.

  Byron’s poetry came back to her and she murmured the words softly:

  ‘A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. Each kiss a heart quake.

  ‘I never thought I would find it, that kind of love, nor my place in the world,’ she said, ‘but here it is, at Stormcrow Castle, with you.’

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  Jane Austen retellings (also available in hardback and paperback)

  Darcy's Diary

  (Pride and Prejudice)

  Mr Knightley's Diary

  (Emma)

  Captain Wentworth's Diary

  (Persuasion)

  Edmund Bertram's Diary

  (Mansfield Park)

  Colonel Brandon's Diary

  (Sense and Sensibility)

  Henry Tilney’s Diary (ebook forthcoming)

  (Northanger Abbey)

  Regency romances

  A Most Unusual Governess

  The Earl Next Door

  The Six Month Marriage

  One Snowy Night

  The Silverton Scandal

  One Night At The Abbey

  Castle of Secrets

  Edwardian romances

  That Would Be A Fairy Tale

  Titanic Affair

  (Set on board the ill-fated liner, Titanic)

  All books originally published in hardback by Robert Hale Ltd

  Except Titanic Affair, originally published in hardback by Severn House

  Please visit Amanda Grange’s website at http://www.amandagrange.com for more information

  For more Kindle books by Amanda Grange in the US,

  Please visit her Kindle page on Amazon US

  Or click the links to individual titles below

  Jane Austen retellings (also available in hardback and paperback)

  Mr Darcy’s Diary

  (Pride and Prejudice)

  Mr Knightley’s Diary

  (Emma)

  Edmund Bertram’s Diary

  (Mansfield Park)

  Colonel Brandon’s Diary

  (Sense and Sensibility)

  Captain Wentworth’s Diary

  (Persuasion)

  Henry Tilney’s Diary(forthcoming)

  (Northanger Abbey)

  Regency Romances

  A Most Unusual Governess

  The Earl Next Door

  The Six Month Marriage

  One Snowy Night

  The Silverton Scandal

  One Night At The Abbey

  Castle of Secrets

  Edwardian Romances (Downton Abbey era)

  That Would Be A Fairy Tale

  Titanic Affair

  (Set on board the ill-fated liner, Titanic)

  Please visit Amanda Grange’s website at http://www.amandagrange.com for more information

  Table of Contents

  © Amanda Grange 2012

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  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

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