This is the first in what I hope are series of Romance Of The Rails stories featuring the characters as members of a private detective agency. Anne wants to have her husband watched, and what does that have to do with her father, anyway?
Losing a loved one to an illness you can't fight is rough. Darkness sets in. People share advice. 'Time heals all', and 'it's always darkest just before the dawn'. Charlie lost Allie. Natalie lost her, too. They found each other and saw the sun rise. When they found Allison, another Allie, in a quirk of fate, there might as well have been two suns. For Charlie, there truly was a Dawn Beyond the Darkness.
Thrown together by circumstance, a young lawyer meets a young woman and there is instant attraction. But he moves too fast and their hot relationship becomes business-only. And then everything is upended when they take on the case of an abused woman and child vs. an all-powerful institution.
Charles Chase is the Chancellor of the Alliance. He is not a king, or a ruler, or a monarch of any kind. He is a leader. A leader of many worlds, many kings, many rulers, and many monarchies. Join The Chancellor as he finds wives, concubines, allies, and foes alike, treating each with the love, consideration, respect, or vitriol, they deserve. From his childhood friend to the daughter of the leader of a most hostile civilization, he meets the best of the best and the worst of the worst.