Epilogue
Ten months later
A crisp fall wind blew red and gold leaves across the path that led up to Astley Court. Everett shoved his hands into his coat pockets as he moved up the cobblestone walkway. The towering rhododendrons nearly walled him off from the front gardens and kept his path concealed from anyone who might be waiting for him at the house. He was already running late for afternoon tea, and his mother would no doubt give him an earful.
A feminine voice gasped somewhere around the bend. “Ouch!”
Everett quickened his pace and followed the sound. He burst into the clearing around the bend, expecting to see his sister or perhaps his sister-in-law, but instead he found Adelaide Berwick. She was the last person he would ever have wanted to run into, especially alone in a garden.
