When Carlisle has a day off from the hospital and the children have school, Esme and Carlisle like to take advantage of having the house to themselves ( Read more... )

Ever since her mistake, Esme has been quite content to stay in the house. She's terrified of repeating it.

Luckily, Carlisle's boxes arrived from Ohio and she threw herself into going through them and organizing his belongings; storing things they didn't need, repairing things that were broken.

Being stuck inside is slowly driving Esme crazy. Edward gets to go to classes, Carlisle has his job and she's not allowed to leave the house ( Read more... )

Esme is adjusting to her new life better than she expected to. Edward has been friendlier to her and Carlisle seems to have forgiven her misstep in kissing him ( Read more... )

"ESME ANNE PLATT, get out of that tree!"

Esme tucks her knees up closer to her chest, wobbling a little to keep her balance. She's tired of her brothers bossing her around, tired of being the only girl and having to do all the household chores, tired of her mama and daddy traveling to neighboring farms to help with the harvest and leaving her home ( Read more... )