Setting the scene…
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The lost daughter
Queen Elise and King William, expecting their first child, embark on a perilous sea voyage as a final adventure before parenthood. Their powerful love is tested when a fierce storm threatens to capsize their ship, summoning the goddess of…
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Previously
…That day was years away. A lifetime away. A whole childhood of scraped knees and bedtime stories and winter mornings and arguments about bedtime and lessons and the thousand small ordinaries that made up a life. But the path was open. The bond held. The choice waited. And on the deck of the Celestine, sailing home through calm waters, Elise felt her daughter rest against her ribs and sleep the dreamless sleep of someone who had already done what she needed to do. Everything else could wait for morning.