Eleanor Tatum

from Silver Cotton (release date – December 10, 2016)

Introduction, part one

The first class coach swayed over the train tracks toward Charleston, lulling her to dream or at least to drift. The daily newspaper slipped from her hands and fell to the floor – August 1, 1910. Outside, the swiftly passing city hovels, tall pines, and swamps flickered and flashed the sunlight and they caught Kirsten feeling sorry for herself. That would never do. She reached for her black leather traveling case and transformed it into a writing desk.

To cheer up, she started to list her blessings. It began with health: good, occasional weeping since Daddy died, and fits of anger since the first scandal , but less stress since Pettigrew’s address had changed to a New Orleans’ jail. Money was second, enough, if she behaved in the usual Delamere conservative  manner, or so her lawyers promised.

To conserve had been one of Daddy’s themes, but his favorite was a trilogy: research, strategize, and then attack. First he had taught her to read. He had instilled in her a reverence of the written word, mathematics, and chess; hours of it, no interference allowed. Later there had been travel. With Mother, they explored the European capitals: Rome, Athens, and London. Her family donated their art collection of England’s JMW Turner’s creations to London’s Tate Museum and funded the building to house them.

(More Soon)

Enough!