The Rake’s Forgotten Bride

Chapter 30: The fixed points ARABELLA AND SEBASTIAN Twenty years after the memory came back in the vestry, the library […]

Chapter 29: The full family SEBASTIAN Ten years after the memory came back in the vestry, he wrote the first

Chapter 28: The vow renewal ARABELLA The chapel at the Wiltshire estate was warm in August. She had not expected

Chapter 27: The birth SEBASTIAN June was hot. The London summer had arrived with the specific, indiscriminate heat of the

Chapter 26: One year later ARABELLA She told him in the library. Where else would she tell him — the

Chapter 25: Society’s reckoning SEBASTIAN He had not planned the speech. He had planned a statement — a moderate, considered

Chapter 24: The wedding night (finally) ARABELLA They stayed at the estate for three days after the chapel. She had

Chapter 23: The truth SEBASTIAN He told her everything in the estate’s library that evening. Not the chapel doorway —

Chapter 22: The memory trigger SEBASTIAN The Wiltshire estate in November was cold and grey and, he had always been

Chapter 21: The slow courtship ARABELLA The article was published in October. Not the Edinburgh Society — they had, as