One Fine Beast

Chapter 1
August 1885The walls of the hospital corridor were stark white, blindingly so, but they didn’t bother him anymore. Neither ...

Chapter 2
1888, Three years laterShe was crazy—absolutely crazy—for taking this job! Lilly Hawthorne glanced at the man seated ...

Chapter 3
The seven o’clock dinner hour was fast approaching. Lilly hadn’t changed her dress, but she had unpacked her trunk. ...

Chapter 4
“It’s okay,” Charlotte said as she moved closer and closer to that ominous door. “He doesn’t mind. ...

Chapter 5
The sleek, black carriage lumbered along the dirty, rutted streets of downtown Havertown. Inside, Gabriel Drayton pressed his pa ...

Chapter 6
After the scolding from her employer, Lilly awakened determined to begin Charlotte’s schoolwork. As the day unfolded, howe ...

Chapter 7
The next morning Lilly almost missed breakfast. She’d been waiting to hear Charlotte’s knock on her father’s b ...

Chapter 8
It was dark when Molly Finch donned her long cloak and slipped out the back of the townhouse. She had plenty of time, but she hu ...

Chapter 9
Lilly’s visit with Julie over the weekend turned out to be not nearly as relaxing as she’d hoped it would be. Other ...

Chapter 10
Gabriel’s sixth destination was one he’d never been to before. He’d never been in this part of town either. Wi ...

Chapter 11
Lilly knocked on the door to the study at precisely five minutes to three. There was no answer. Pacing the hallway outside of it ...

Chapter 12
Like the week before, on Saturday Lilly and Charlotte headed to town. Withers dropped them off near the shopping district so the ...