When Julian has business to tend to on the Rhineholt land, I come along and visit with Creeda. When I told her Fleur was gone, she was grief-stricken, and I did not have the heart to tell her the whole truth. She is delighted when we stay with her at Aven Cottage, and the house is just close enough for us to go and spend the afternoon at Rhineholt, watching the reconstruction. I find myself sitting beneath that old tree often, writing my story and listening to the white birds that nest there.
Li had her son in India, who she named for his father, and his fifth birthday is on Sunday. She is serenely happy and with child, again. Our daughter was born two months ago, only a year after we arrived home from India for the first time. It was four and one half years since we arrived in Cochin. The doctor says that the poison weakened me greatly and it would be very difficult for me to have any more children, but Julian and I are content with our little girl. He says that she looks nothing like him, aside from her grey eyes, but I see a certain mischief that could have only come from him. Her hair is not quite red, it is much lighter than my own.
I have called her Annalice... for my mother.
THE END
A NOTE FROM AMBER
Dear reader,
Thank you for taking the time to read Walls of Ash. When I began this journey, I never expected to feel an urgent need to self-publish. Writing this book has given me something back which I thought was lost for many years: imagination.
Always,
Amber Newberry
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amber Newberry is a musician and writer who grew up in the South but later migrated to New England. With a variety of creative interests, writing became a hobby that was generally focused toward lyrics and poetry until she recently developed an itch to write a novel. With a flare for the macabre, Amber has made her home in Salem, MA with her very own bard and their three cats.
Amber is currently in the process of completing The Masque and the Mausoleum, which will be the second book in the Rhineholt Series featuring Tamsin’s daughter.
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