Bower~
Cade Callan
Windermere, Aleron
Musicians played, and guests danced in the ballroom at Windermere because Cade indulged his grandmother’s wishes far more than he would anyone else’s. The house party was her graduation gift to him, an extravagant gala as dotingly obligatory as the gala she’d hosted for Nate the year before.
Cade could make an effort to pretend he wanted to be there.
Windermere was an hour’s sail up the coast from Ellard, a convenient escape from the university’s libraries and lecture halls. The estate could accommodate entire shiploads of Ellard’s most eligible young men summoned to enjoy its hospitality. Accordingly, Windermere was a lodestone for hordes of marriageable young ladies and their hovering chaperones, and Lady Marjory Callan was renowned as one of Al
