The Girdle of Melian

o! Spring has sprung! I've got a slew of photos, but before that...   Here's the next story snip! Larksong is set in Montreal, July 1914. In chapter 1, Alice arrived at the family cottage to take care of her grandmother's aviary, following her grandmother's funeral, only to find that her parents had already leased the cottage to another family for the summer. The only way she could have one more summer in her favourite place was to surreptitiously take on the role of governess to the two young girls... In chapter 2, we met George, laid up at the hospital with a broken leg. Instead of joining his friends on a Grand Tour of Europe, he's being sent off to recuperate at a rented cottage in the country... In chapters 3 and 4, we returned to Alice's point of view, and saw her bonding with George's younger sisters. Then she got a surprise -- George was arriving at the cottage that very day! We saw a hint that Alice finds George attractive and interes

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ost #1466 on this blog! It'll soon be time for another retrospective, if I can get one together. I celebrated at 500 posts and 900 posts , and my theme for the Blogging from A to Z April challenge in 2017 was reaching 1000 posts ! Nearly 500 posts since then; I wonder how long it would take to collate them all by theme...   I think if I had two full days and nothing else to do, I could get them all together for this year's A to Z. Ah well, maybe next year!   New book! One Small Piece Of Darkness by Ryan Bevan Murder in a small town. Two teens are reported missing in the town of Mercy, Ontario. It's up to Sergeant Ross to solve the crime, but the case is quickly confounded by a series of murders that follow. The once quiet town of Mercy is met with its first possible serial killer. And caught in the middle is a young reporter, a maligned suspect, and two clueless toilet cleaners that find themselves guilty until proven innocent. Who is the real killer?