![]() ![]() The mansion seems to wear a cloak of distinctly Gothic dimensions. Joanna Davidson Politano introduces us to a very unusual cast of characters numbered in the awaiting Harcourt family. Dread soaks into Aurelie as well as the deluge of rain that has come upon them. Two gentlemen lug a heavy trunk containing her father's works onto the carriage's platform. A carriage awaits her in the darkened street outside the prison. With no other recourse, Aurelie leaves the tower room that she shared for years with her father. ![]() Penniless, he leaves his daughter but two things after his untimely death: his famous pen name of Nathaniel Droll and a shocking connection to an unforementioned wealthy family of his. Aurelie Harcourt's father has suddenly been released from the ties that bind him here. A tale of fathers and daughters and the written word.ĭeath knocks softly on the wooden door of Debtor's Prison. A pill of advice disguised in an easy-to-swallow tale."Īnd there's a tale to be told here. "Fiction was not always a lie, but a truth told in parallel to real life. ![]()
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