CHAPTER 5
Before the village was known as Springfields Alana’s people lived happily on the land; they called An Cala. They cleared trees to make way for fields and farmed what they needed to survive. However, when Akira had mysteriously died fields didn’t flourish, and eventually the people had moved on to pastures greener, only Alana’s family had stayed—not the sort of people to give up easily. As time went on the stone cottage was built and the last of the Devlins—Maisie—had died there with no heir. Maisie had fallen deeply in love with a man—Grant Headley—who although he did love Maisie, was under the silly notion he couldn’t marry her until he had made his fortune. He cooked up a scheme to buy Maisie’s land with 3 partners, to develop it for themselves, which they did, and called it S
