PROLOGUE
~ Misapprehensions
Milo was a dapple grey, 14 hands high, and he was mine – all mine. He was as steadfast as any mere canine could ever be, and cantered as if without a care in the world. I rode him whenever I could, and wherever I could, but we would almost always ride across Elmere Common; a vast expanse of fields and woodland, dominating the area of and around Chorley.
Typically the common would be brimming with life in all of the seasons; in spring with crimson and plum-coloured blossom, adding marvellous splatters of colour to the already phenomenal lustre of the park; in summer, when the trees and shrubs and open meadows held home to a few dozen varieties of creature, big and small, untamed and domesticated; in autumn, when the brown and orange landscape rendered the sensation of living in an old painting; and finally, in winter, whose bare trees were more often than not speckled with a pristine white dusting of fresh, sparkling snow. And everywhere you beheld would fashion a new seasonal painting.
That was something I’d always adored about Chorley and Elmere. It was so colossal, so gloriously enigmatic that, even though I had had the pleasure of living there for the entirety of my existence, there were always further situations to go to and discover. Yet, I never lost my bearings, and if I did, Milo would find his way for us. There was no uncertainty about that.
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Elmere Common
RomanceKatherine Benson is youthfully inquisitive, ridiculously obedient, and enormously attached to her beloved home, situated on the marvellous Elmere Common. However, the Common, being so vast and seemingly infinite, always holds surprises for the youn...