Chapter 1Bonelle looked out of the gap in the stone wall of her bedroom and watched as the last of the horses galloped away across the fields. They wound their way over the draw bridge with a deafening thump and kicked up a spray of mud as their hooves hit the soft earth. She waited until they had past the loch, snaked up the hillside that led away from Castle Grant, and disappeared under a cloak of darkness. Even the moon, which was high and bright in the sky, couldn’t expose them once they had made it into the forest, thick and deep. Bonelle listened to see if she could hear anything more, but she knew that they had definitely gone.
And now, as she thought about her situation, she was nervous.
She stepped back from the window and took a deep breath. Visitors that late to the castle cou
