Darkness Falls

Chapter One

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Matilda Dixon was baking a lemon cake when she was told that her husband was dead.

Until then, it had been the happiest day of her life. Every day was the happiest day of Matilda Dixon's life. It saved time and energy for more important things if she thought of it that way.

At first, she had thought the day she first met Captain Sonny Dixon to be the happiest day of her life.

That was later superseded by the day Sonny got down on his knee in the kitchen of Matilda's father's house and asked her to marry him.

That was, in turn, superseded by their wedding day, a glorious spring day in the field behind her father's house.

Then every day of their honeymoon became the happiest day.

Then the day they moved to Darkness Falls to-gether, with dreams of Sonny becoming a successful whaler ... read full excerpt from Darkness Falls ebook