"Love is a Choice" by Gratiana Lovelace, 3/15/13 (Completed)

Ch. 24 (PG-13)-- Fanny's Revealed Cause of Death has a Far Reaching Impact

“Love is a Choice”, Ch. 24 (PG-13)-- Fanny’s Revealed Cause of Death has a Far Reaching Impact,  June 09, 2013 Gratiana Lovelace 

(An original story by Gratiana Lovelace; All Rights Reserved)

[From time to time, I will illustrate my story with my dream cast of:  Richard Armitage as Lord Rafe Wingate, Carla Gugino as Lady Katharine Southwick Wingate, Lesley Nicol as Mrs. Plunkett, Emilie Francois as Anna Wingate, Mark Strong as Sir Collin MacGregor, Alan Bates as Lord Charles Wingate, Christian Bale as Stuart MacGregor, Daniel Day-Lewis as Sir Antony Southwick, Michelle Pfeiffer as Lady Charmaine Southwick, Catherine Deneuve as Lady Esmѐ Sinclair, Julian Sands as Sir Percival Southwick, Samantha Morton as Lady Lucinda Southwick, Raymond Coulthard as David Harriott, Rosamund Pike as  Fanny Miller, Brendan Coyle as Uncle Miller, Princess Adelaide as herself, and others, etc.]     [Story Logo 1abcd]

Author’s Mature Content Note:  “Love is a Choice” is a story of love and romance set in the early to mid 1800’s.  I like Regency sensibilities with regard to comedy of manners, but Romantic period modes of dress.   Ha!  As such there will be some passages in this story involving heartfelt love scenes (perhaps some R rated) and some passages involving highly dramatic moments.  I will label the maturity rating of those chapters accordingly.  Otherwise, the general rating for this story is PG or PG-13 due to some mature situations and topics.  If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide, then please do not read the chapters with those labels.  This is my disclaimer. 

Additional Disclaimer: The Wiki and other reference links I cite contain general information merely to indicate that a place, person, or artifact, etc.,  possibly existed.  Though I try to use real locations in England and I make reference to some historically complementary information whenever possible, the fictionalized history that I write about for these towns, towns folks, and areas in my story are mostly figments of my imagination and should not be taken as fact.

Author’s Recap from the previous installment:  Lord Rafe, Lady Katharine, and Anna’s visit to the sea side in Essex at Sea Grove Cottage proved to be a wonderful bonding time for little Anna and her father Lord Rafe--and also as the new little Wingate family with Lady Katharine. Lady Katharine was also able to reconnect with her childhood friend, Cassie, who just had her first child Beatrice.    And the newly little Wingate family’s project to honor Anna’s mother Fanny Miller’s memory--in addition to Anna and Lord Rafe writing down their memories of Fanny and Lady Katharine’s lovely portrait drawing of Fanny [(2) right]--now also includes moving Fanny’s body from her village cemetery to the Dearing Manor Estate’s private Wingate family cemetery with full funeral honors. Lord Rafe’s best friend Sir Collin MacGregor will undertake the charge to bring the late Fanny Miller’s body to Dearing Manor near Warwick in Warwickshire. But Sir Collin will run into obstacles, and a dark and sinister mystery that will impact more than just the Wingate’s and their extended families--though it will affect them most personally. 

“Love is a Choice”, Ch. 24 (PG-13):  Fanny’s Revealed Cause of Death has a Far Reaching Impact

During the remaining week that Lord Rafe, Lady Katharine, and Anna spend in Essex at Sea Grove Cottage, Sir Collin MacGregor [(3) right] travels to young Anna Wingate’s former village home in Clearwell in Gloucestershire to arrange transferring Fanny Miller’s body to the Dearing Manor family cemetery in Warwickshire.  This is a very personal commission for the gentlemanly and distinguished Sir Collin from his lifelong friend Lord Rafe.  And Sir Collin is honored to attend to the arrangements of this heartfelt family matter.  However, Sir Collin runs into an impediment--if one can call a person an impediment--and then he uncovers a very dark and sinister mystery involving the deaths of more than Fanny Miller.  Sir Collin MacGregor finds Anna’s Uncle Miller most uncooperative as they speak at the mill that he now owns outright.