All Chapters of The Usurper : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

How To Choose Your Item Of Theft.Kate Middleton sat at the parlour of her new home, sipping tea and thinking of how fast her life had changed in months.Within a month, she had lost her father to the sea and her mother had been long gone, died while she was with child. The child had not survived, neither had the mother. She had been living with her father’s cousin, Earl of Pembroke, his wife and his daughter, Cassandra “Cassy" Pembroke.  Thrust forcefully away, from her quiet life of nothing but looking at sheep, into the high socialist life of balls, dinner parties and courting, she had been certainly unprepared. Being her father’s only child, he let her do as she pleased, while he sailed the high seas. She had done nothing but count sheep, monitor her father’s shepherds and wool.She took another slurp of tea, and wondered why father had never let her come

 'Stupid,stupid, stupid!' Duke Archer thought as he stood, suddenly uncomfortable beside the chaperone. She must think him dishonourable and mannerless and selfish to put her reputation at risk. What was he thinking? Oh, right. He