Penny's Dreadfuls - Cornelia True & Roman Gray

The Remarkable Adventures of Cornelia True and Roman Gray

Miss Cornelia True lives in Bodwin's Ferry, a small seacoast town, with her sisters Arabella and Viola. Her life changes forever when Roman Gray, a "fixer" from the future and across the seas from the metropolis of Newest Yorkke, lands, naked, amongst Cornelia's petunias due to a glitch in his Device.

Together, they embark on a series of remarkable adventures.

The Ramsey Chase
In which the adventurous Miss Cornelia True meets the intrepid Roman Gray and joins him in tracking down a murderer.

Excerpt:

Roman Gray kept his eyes squeezed shut, ignoring the breeze that played against his bare skin. Against all logic, he hoped that if he refused to open his eyes, he would discover this was only a glitch caused by The Device, and, momentarily, he would find himself in the correct time and space. Preferably fully clothed.

“My dear sir, if you are going to drop, naked as the day you were born, into my prize petunias, you can at least introduce yourself.”

Roman sighed, opening one green eye and then the other. This wasn’t some glitch or hallucination. He was lying, curled up in a fetal position, in the midst of a flower bed, with a woman leaning over him. Her cadence was formal, but her face was smooth and unlined, framed by long, wavy golden hair, and he realized he finally experienced the much-raved about “cornflower blue” eyes. Hers were that shade of blue, and for a moment he forgot that he was lying naked in a flower bed, trying to pursue a murderer.

“Sir? Are you ill?”

“Uh, no.” He shook his own hair, thick and black, slightly longer than regulation, which would have brushed his collar, had he anything on, at the moment, with a collar. He sat up, wondering how to appear modest, and gave up. “My name is Roman Gray, and my Device’s gone wonky.”

“Well, that’s unfortunate, isn’t it?” The woman slipped a pale green shawl from around her shoulders and held it out to him. “Perhaps you would like to cover yourself for the walk to the house, just in case the neighbors aren’t minding their own business? They do seem to find other people’s business far more interesting than their own. Once we are inside, we’ll get this sorted out.” She smiled at him. “Don’t worry, you shan’t shock me. I studied the male anatomy in life drawing class. And I do have a brother.”

"The Ramsey Chase" ©2008 Devon Ellington.
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