To Honor's relief, the rest of the month passed without incident. She was not sure if Gavin was still in Edinburgh and she was afraid to find out. She made no calls on anyone and instead, worked on the restoration of her mother's ancestral home, Lochwood. It had been abandoned for decades after her grandparents had died and had fallen to almost ruin when Honor first arrived. Oddly, she didn't see the rot in front of her, only what the house could become.
She worked each day until she fell into bed at night exhausted. Her first order of business was to install a new roof. Once accomplished, it made the house habitable, but it was still a long way from comfortable. She knew she had only a small window of time to work, and so she spent a fortune hiring stone masons, architects and plaster
