The Women of Wild Hill

Chapter One Final Blessing

One Final Blessing

I stayed long enough to see the new arrivals settled in.

They filled every room on the property. When I left, the cottage shook with laughter, a bonfire burned on the front lawn, and the mansion was alive once more.

Phoebe, Brigid, and Sibyl watched from the beach as I walked into the waves.

Four hundred years after it began, my mission was at last complete.

Thank goodness Gerald was always the most patient of souls.

I found him right where he’d been waiting for me at the bottom of the sea.

The weight of my sacrifice has been balanced by blessing.