The Enchantress (Book 1 of The Enchantress Saga)

by Thorne, Nicola

  Analee got up.

  ‘I have told Brent I am with child by my lord and want nothing more to do with him. We are building our own life together, we and our children, which Angus urgently desires. He is of the government, bound for important duties in the army, at Court perhaps. Our lives must sunder, Mary. But I will always have a place for you in my heart. I hope you escape to happiness, and wish you and your family well. Now I am going ...’

  ‘But it is dark ...’

  ‘No matter. McNeath will drive carefully and we shall lodge at the first hostelry we come to. When Brent finds I am gone you will see he will soon realize how lucky he is to find such a wife as yourself. And you will be happy Mary. I know it. You have remembered the spell? Say it again.’

  Mary nodded and repeated it until Analee was happy. Her eyes were on Analee – the enchantress, the witch.

  Moments later she heard the rattle of the coach, the barking of dogs.

  The Marchioness of Falconer was returning to her lord, to the great mansion of Falcon’s Keep in the heart of the Cheviot Hills. The Cheviots marked the end of the Pennine Range so that Analee had in some senses finished her journey. The past was behind her. Like the Allonbys, the Delamains, the defeated Jacobites and their fugitive Prince, she, Analee the gypsy, was beginning life again.

  Contents

  The Enchantress

  Publishing history

  About the Author

  By the same author

  Foreword

  Author’s Note

  Book 1 The Enchantress

  Synopsis

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