Dear readers, thank you for the kind reception of Thomas Grey and the Year Without Summer. Also thank you for the numerous heads-ups regarding the glitches that slipped through, and a great, big Thanks to Old Rotorhead, my editor!
Today, I posted the 1st chapter of my next story, Double or Nothing, another entry into the Anthony Carter Universe. Readers will find themselves reunited with a number of characters from my earlier stories such as In The Navy, Ellen, and His Lucky Charm, the latter sharing the setting in the mid to late 1850s.
Although the subject matter of the first chapters does not really fit the Happy Easter mood set, I decided to get started with the posting whilst the last chapters (11-12) are still in the draft stage. Postings will be twice weekly.
I hope that you will not be turned off by the sombre mood of the first chapters, but the events described therein are the catalyst for the MC's return to a happy life.
Summary
When Captain Sir Charles Tolliver learns of his only, estranged son's death in the Crimean War, he has to take in his daughter-in-law, Suzanne and her daughter Alice, whom he had never seen before. Through the years of mourning, the strangers grow to respect and like each other, but it takes the sudden reappearance of Suzanne's long lost twin sister Paulina for Charles Tolliver to embrace life again.