When her mother had died, she had been sad, but there was another feeling, too. An energy and strength that flowed through her as she prepared to be her father’s partner. Together they would run Ard Carraig. When she howled into her pillow in the days and nights after Evelyn found the body, what hurt her the most was that her father hadn’t shared her vision of their future. It was the first time in her short life that she had realised she was alone.
