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Chapters 4-5 Available at Fanfiction.net

Bloody noses, family goats, bad investments and Lord Thomas loses his title.


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Chapters 1-3 Available at Fanfiction.net

Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House served only the finest coffees and, even though she preferred red wines and good brandies, Charlotte ordered a coffee for the sake of appearances. Eighteenth-century social norms excluded women from the business negotiations taking place in the coffee house much like any other venue where games of chance transpired, thus ( Read more... )

Seagulls screeched over the din of the busy Wednesday morning. At uneven intervals, identifiable noises rose above the commercial cacophony along the Thames. Angry shouts punctuated the offloading of cargo. A ship’s bell clanged the hour ten minutes too early. Somewhere, someone cackled like a banshee, while a fishmonger shouted his wares at his ( Read more... )

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” -Sir Isaac Newton

I have decided to dip my toes back into the stagnate waters of my imagination. However, I am doing so with moderation otherwise I won't get a damn thing accomplished in the real world and be forced to cower behind the shining brilliance of my internet persona until I lose all touch with reality and start referring to myself in the third person and ( Read more... )