Chapter TenThalia spent the rest of the morning pacing her bedroom, worrying about when Rose was going to make her appearance. She knew she was in for a scolding, but there was nothing she could do about it. She couldn’t have turned down Roddy’s challenge. Finally, she decided to stop worrying about something she couldn’t control and deal with something she could. Her research. She moved to the drawing room where she’d left her work and attempted to continue reading through her father’s field notes. The problem was that she couldn’t concentrate. Again and again, her mind wandered from the race to her sister to society before finally returning to the page before her. She was nearly done reading through her parents’ notes. They’d come to the conclusion that the site was a temple dedicated

