Into a Dark Realm
Book Two of the Darkwar Saga
Chapter One
Two and a half years later
"There you are, Aunt Sophie!- Entering the drawing room
of the Society for the Enrichment and Learning of
Females, Tess Linowes, Lady Golding, smiled.
Lady Braxton looked up from the tome lying open on the
desk before her. Her dove gray eyes were filled with
delight. "Tess! What a pleasant surprise. How are you?-
"I went to your house and your butler directed me here,-Tess
explained, setting a kiss on her aunt's cheek.
"I find my house a bit too quiet for comfort these
days.- Aunt Sophie's moon-pale face was melancholy as
she set her place with a band and closed the book. She'd
lost her husband of twenty-five years to a lung ailment
last summer, and Tess could hardly imagine her grief.
Her aunt's already graying hair had completely turned
slate, as if washed in a cloud of her sorrow.
"I like it here.- Aunt Sophie sighed. "The Society for
the Enrichment and Learning of Females has been a
salvation for me. I wonder that you don't utilize your
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