The Eterna Files
“There was confusion, concern, even panic on the docks at the tip of Manhattan Island. Ahead of Clara, as she looked out past schooners and ferry boats, lay the first tier of the pedestal that would eventually host Bartholdi’s Lady Liberty … if New York could ever pay for her. Clara thought with a profound sadness that perhaps Liberty would never lift her lamp high over the water, not if all those warships meant anything.
A fleet of Britain’s warships, the Union Jack flying high and proud upon e...very mast: the world’s greatest navy, amassing at the tip of America’s greatest city. A dread chill coursed through Clara’s veins and she clutched her shawl tighter around her neck.
England would make America theirs after all. A colony it simply could not let go.
The act of a monarchy that could never die.
Never die.
“Wake up!”
Clara’s eyes shot open as she bolted upright. The ruffles of her nightdress, which she’d bunched up around her neck during her nightmare, fell back down in a splay of fine layered lace.MoreLess
A fleet of Britain’s warships, the Union Jack flying high and proud upon e...very mast: the world’s greatest navy, amassing at the tip of America’s greatest city. A dread chill coursed through Clara’s veins and she clutched her shawl tighter around her neck.
England would make America theirs after all. A colony it simply could not let go.
The act of a monarchy that could never die.
Never die.
“Wake up!”
Clara’s eyes shot open as she bolted upright. The ruffles of her nightdress, which she’d bunched up around her neck during her nightmare, fell back down in a splay of fine layered lace.MoreLess
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