The Art of Piracy
Chapter One
Veronica Lillet Kindred shaded her eyes and looked up at the chateau. It appeared to be a typical opulent French manor, not one that deserved to have tales told about it of ghosts and strange occurrences. But the horses had gotten more nervous as they'd approached, and her crew quieter.
She didn’t know any of the men that well, but they'd started the morning boisterous enough to the point of boasting that they'd capture the first spirit they encountered and put it in a glass jar. Then they'd bring it back to Paris and start doing séances, mediumship being a better paying profession than requisitioning and moving art.
The boasting had turned to nervous fidgeting and whispered repetition of rumors.
While Veronica had no doubt that men committed the sort of
