Not Vanished: A Mother's Return

ye

nce they sai

t vanish

y family' s land. The River Guardi

Stone Breakers now.

I was tied to my son, L

new wife, Chloe, was wit

She leaned on Marcu

Marcus' s voice was har

his men said. "The old R

"Pathetic. Ava' s

g, a true river. His Stone Breakers were like h

ne thing: my

zed core of m

rent was too weak for the child she carried.

othing now. He had taken my family' s influence,

thin, his face gaunt.

Liam' s voice was low,

was a "wilted fern" to Marcus,

Marcus demanded. "And her

spoke of me as if

ere old. "My