CHAPTER ONE
1877“I think we are almost there! We’ve just turned off the road!” Aurora cried, as the carriage swung to the right, lurching and swaying.
“I know that bump in the drive so well. I thought Papa would have fixed it by now.”
She leapt up in her excitement and peered through the carriage window, but it was very steamed up on this icy December day, so she then pulled it open and cold foggy air came flooding in.
“Ouch!” called out Phyllis, her maid, shivering as she huddled to the corner of the seat. “You’ll surely freeze us both to death, Miss Aurora!”
Aurora laughed and pulled up the fur-lined hood of her cloak round her ears.
“Just let me have the first glimpse of Hadleigh Hall and then I’ll shut the window,” she replied and leant out looking longingly up the drive ahead
