The Neglected Wife: Now Watch the Grove Roar

My family has always been the quiet guardians of the Beaumont fortune, bound by an ancient Life-Pact to the sacred Redwood trees on their vast estate.

My own life force, and the prosperity of the Beaumonts, was intrinsically linked to the magnificent Patriarch tree and the ancestral Heartwood Amulet I wore.

Then, Evelyn arrived.

My husband, Arthur Beaumont, was instantly ensnared by his childhood sweetheart' s supposed terminal illness.

A "specialist" doctor declared her only hope lay in draining the life from our sacred Patriarch or my very own amulet.