“Welcome back my lady,”  Mrs Mellow the housekeeper said, “hope you enjoyed your stay at Lancaster.” I didn't. If I was to be cooped up in a house all day it might as well be this one rather than the...

“LORD AND LADY PRESTON”  the announcer bellowed and the room went quite.We were one of the last guests to enter the ball room. Since we were staying at Lowther castle we could have been the first, but I did...

He usually doesn't have breakfast with me. When he did I knew something was up. “We will be leaving to Lowther castle in a few days," he said, "Lady Carolina is organizing a ball and she invited us to spend...

The whip struck, first tearing up her dress, then digging deeper until it found flesh. Strike after strike it crisscrossed her back like a map. She was on her knees, curled up like a ball, her screams echoed each...