Isle of Blood and Stone

We humans are complicated creatures. There are so many in-betweens within us.

One could fill an entire world with all the things we did not know.

If you could sail off today, where would you go?" She set aside her lead as she thought about his question. Her face took on a dreamy quality, and her answer, when it came, did not surprise him. "I would go everywhere.

But death can transform a man into a myth. A legend even he would not recognize.

He had come into Elias’s life when the boy was nearly five, wooing both mother and son with such single-minded determination that Sabine, Lady Isidore, laughingly referred to their courtship as a siege.

Bad men are capable of generous acts. It's a rare person who is completely evil. The reverse is also true. A good man may commit a terrible thing and spend the rest of his life trying to set things right.

Lord Isidore, the only father he knew.