Her quest with Galwell, Elowen, and Clare had carried her far from her humble hometown, from the elegant streets of Queendom to the horrific Grimauld Mines. Never to Elgin, though. The country village’s wide roads held no shadows where memories could hide. In the earliest days of her courtship with Robert, she’d found its ordinariness beautiful. Then, with time, comforting. Then, just familiar.

