I can't believe how much one person can ruin everything inside of my Kingdom. My grandmother's gardens that I have seen paintings of are now overgrown. Weeds choke out the life of her beauties. Not that it really matters in the whole scheme of things, but it sums up the state of Darke pretty well.
Edrich is gone, but his influence not so much.
The low borne who has been running everything are threatening revolt. The Highborne who have been forced into a kind of slavery have little to no fight left in them.
And the laws from the queens before me...
How could anyone live under so many archaic pieces of nonsense that it doesn't even add up to troll dung? It's ridiculous to say the least. It is little wonder that my mother was faced with the revolt that took both her and my father away from me. A revolt that kept me away from growing up in this vast country.
But I can fix this.
No, I will fix this. I don’t have a choice.
Ethan, however does. And he chooses to silently watch everything and everyone. Speaking only after he has formed an opinion on what needs fixed depending on the situation. Of course, speaking before thinking had proven a good way to be turned into furniture.
Retired! New start! Murder!
Todd, detective lieutenant, has retired from St. Louis, Missouri and has moved to Ford Valley, Arizona. When Todd’s ex-wife is killed in a car accident, Todd fights for custody of his teenage daughter. She has bee
