The Watch That Cannot Give Happiness
by Corinne Ashby
Chapters 1–13 free
Synopsis
Laya Thodell has no memory of studying medicine, yet her hands know exactly what to do when her husband's mother collapses at the abbey. She has never lived in these halls, yet every corridor feels like home. When the frail Lady Gray presses a family heirloom into her palm, a pocket watch that glows in the dark, Laya begins to dream of another woman's life: a commoner raised as a dead girl's replacement, sold, widowed, and finally married to Alen under a three-year contract. The watch is showing her how that life ended, and it is running out of time.
Chapters 15
- 1A Visit to the Abbey
- 2The Heirloom She Was Given
- 3The Woman Called Gray
- 4Three Years, Nothing More
- 5A Glass of Water
- 6The Guest from Parido
- 7A Letter at Dawn
- 8The Night He Rode Out
- 9The Doctor from Hess
- 10Come Here, My Son
- 11A House Near Central
- 12The Balcony Full of Flowers
- 13Dinner with the Violets
- 14What the Countess Left Behind🔒
- 15In All the Lives to Come🔒